Table formatting disappearing?

[belinda]

I am writing what has now become a large procedure manual
in Word 2000 and I describe many instructional steps in it
using tables. When I began writing, I used the Table Auto
Format screen to modify one of the table styles slightly
to how I wanted it to look and then I saved it. When I
needed more tables in my document, I subsequently copied
and pasted the one I had just done. There have been no
real problems until recently.

Today, I was going through my document and noticed that
all the table formatting in many of (but not all) my
tables had disappeared. The table itself was still there
because it still behaved as a table should (I could select
rows and so forth). Can anyone tell me why this is
happening, and what I can do about it? It is quite a time
consuming task to go through a 77 page document and change
the formatting of dozens of tables! Thanks!

 

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Belinda,

I have no idea what might cause this. If you were using Word
2002, I might guess that Table Styles had been applied or
changed.

But for Word 2000, the only thing that comes to mind is that
the binary document structures that manage tables have been
damaged. Which doesn't bode well for the file...

About the only thing you could do about it would be to create
a new document, copy over the text, and recreate the tables.

Today, I was going through my document and noticed that
all the table formatting in many of (but not all) my
tables had disappeared. The table itself was still there
because it still behaved as a table should (I could select
rows and so forth). Can anyone tell me why this is
happening, and what I can do about it? It is quite a time
consuming task to go through a 77 page document and change
the formatting of dozens of tables!

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

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I'm wondering if by "table formatting" you mean the cell boundaries. Is it
possible that something as simple as Table | Show Gridlines is what you're
looking for?

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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