Word 2003 bug -- edit picture inside a table breaks vertical align

[andrew_dotdot]

Open a blank Word document. Create a table. Change the table's alignment so
that is placed relative to the page (Tables...Properties...Text Wrapping =
Around...Positioning...Relative to...Page, both horizontally and vertically).
Move the table somewhere to the lower half of the page.

Open Excel. Select some cells. Copy picture (as shown when printed).

Return to Word and paste into the table cell. Right click the picture just
pasted in from Excel and choose "Edit Picture". The picture jumps up to the
top margin of the page. If you change the horiz position of the table, the
horiz position of the picture will change. Also note that the table is still
holding space for the picture, which Word seems to firmly believe is still
inside the table.

Anyone seen this? Any workarounds?

Thanky thanks,

:A\>

 

[Eddie Thrashcort]

Isnt anything you copy from Excel will be pasted into Word as a table? If so
then I suspect that the pasted table format is conflicting with Word's table
formatting.

Whatever the cause, I suggest you place two spaces inside the cell into
which you want to paste the excel content and paste it between the spaces

Eddie

 

[andrew_dotdot]

Hi Eddie,

The problem was that this was "Copy as picture" in Excel (hold in shift
whilst you click on the Edit menu). It's not a table when it hits Word --
it's some sort of a picture/enhanced metafile.

Editing the picture in Office 2000 doesn't cause the picture object to jump
up to the top margin of the page. This is something that came up since we
were migrated to 2003. The table into which the picture is pasted is the way
that we ensure the picture will be in a certain place on the page.

Placing a space before/after didn't help, thought I do agree that making
sure that you never have two tables touching each other is definitely the
best policy in Word.

:A)>

 

[Eddie Thrashcort]

Hmmmm... "MSWORD Table-World" is a very odd universe indeed!!

I don't know what to suggest other than that this is a bug in Word's table
management routines. I've experienced MANY bugs when manipulating tables.

Could you try pasting into a blank document than using cut and paste (or
paster special) again to transfer it to your table?

Eddie