Table - protecting cells

[Paddy]

I have a couple of documents from others including tables. These tables
have the top row with"headings", that cannot be entered, changed or
selected. It appears that the table can be copy/pasted with the top heading
cells intact and ineditable, the remainder of the cells accessible.

How is this done? I'm using Office 2007, but the documents were produced in
Word 2002 or 2003.

Thanks

Paddy

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

It sounds like what you're seeing is the Header Row Repeat feature. This
causes the header row at the top of the table to be repeated on subsequent
pages when the table continues on multiple pages. Click in the table, then,
in the Layout tab, see if Repeat Header Rows is active.

If you want the feature, but simply need to edit the source, then go to the
top of the table on the first page where it appears.

If you don't want the feature, then click it in the Layout tab to turn it
off.

 

[Paddy]

Thanks, Herb. I'll check it out.

Paddy

It sounds like what you're seeing is the Header Row Repeat feature.
This causes the header row at the top of the table to be repeated on
subsequent pages when the table continues on multiple pages. Click in
the table, then, in the Layout tab, see if Repeat Header Rows is
active.
If you want the feature, but simply need to edit the source, then go
to the top of the table on the first page where it appears.

If you don't want the feature, then click it in the Layout tab to
turn it off.