problems w/ tables and save as word 2000

[Evan Griffing]

Hi,

Our group had a good routine for copy and pasting tables
from excel into word 2000 (pastespecial as rtf), and then
running some formating commands through a macro.

When I run the same set of commands with word 2002 (xp),
the table looks fine until the document saves. At this
point the columns shift separately for each row, making
the table unusable. I have tried saving the document as
word 97-2002 rtf, which makes it less likely to happen,
but there are still problems. Any ideas here?

I would like to save it as a word 2000 document, but
there is no option, and doesn't appear to be a filter for
this on the web or the installation cd.

There is also an option to turn off functions after word
95, but it doesn't go up to word 2000 (vers. 9).

thanks,
Evan

 

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Evan,

There definitely were some changes moving from Word 97 to
2000 to 2002 in how tables are managed.

You might try activating the options for Word 2000 in
Tools/Options/Compatibility. And also turning off the
features not available in the older version in
Tools/Options/Save.

Our group had a good routine for copy and pasting tables
from excel into word 2000 (pastespecial as rtf), and then
running some formating commands through a macro.

When I run the same set of commands with word 2002 (xp),
the table looks fine until the document saves. At this
point the columns shift separately for each row, making
the table unusable. I have tried saving the document as
word 97-2002 rtf, which makes it less likely to happen,
but there are still problems. Any ideas here?

I would like to save it as a word 2000 document, but
there is no option, and doesn't appear to be a filter for
this on the web or the installation cd.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan
24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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