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Subject:RE: HELP - Word table half on/half off page?! From:"Watson Angela B (ext1abr)" <ext1abr -at- ups -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:35:57 -0400
I am with Chris on this one. When using word for long documents tables and
embedded pictures being copied and pasted in with other content sometimes
things go a stray. Just cut your losses and go ahead and re-work the table
in the new document.
GL,
Angie
-----Original Message-----
From: Grant, Christopher [mailto:CGrant -at- glhec -dot- org]
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 2:13 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: HELP - Word table half on/half off page?!
> people into one manual. When I try inserting this one Word table, it
> always appears half on, half off the page. I've tried changing that
<snip>
> Sound familiar to anyone? Got any ideas on how to fix this??
Sure, that sounds familiar, just like Word mangling all sorts of other stuff
when you're using it to work on a long, complex document. :)
In this case, if trying to manipulate the existing table didn't work within
the first two or three tries, I would fall back to copying the data from the
old table and re-creating it in my destination document (providing that's
practical.) Fiddling with the tool any longer than that and you're just
eating up the time you'll need to create the new table.
IMHO, if someone provides a quick fix here, go for that. Otherwise, cut
your losses and use a simple method like recreating the table.
Chris Grant
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