RE: Annoying MS Word Table Sizing Issue

["Schutz, Me" <me -dot- schutz -at- thermo -dot- com>]

 Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 11:59:40 -0800
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 11:59:40 -0800 Amy Branscome writes in part...

I have an old Word document full of tables I need to resize...nothing is
working consistently. 
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Hello Amy,

A couple of suggestions, least to most painful (at least in my humble
opinion).  
Check the settings in the Table Grid style.
Try an "open and repair" on the document.
Select everything in the document except the last paragraph marker and
copy the file to a new document (based on the new template) in a new
folder, save the file and then work on the tables.
Use Pure Text or some other format stripping utility to cut the tables
from the document and then paste them back as unformatted text.  Convert
the text to a new table.

And always pray that the Table Gods will favor you during the Word
session...
ME

Mary Ellen Schutz
Sr. Technical Writer
Translation Coordinator
Thermo Electron Corporation
5225-4 Verona Road
Madison, WI  53711
Telephone: (608)276-6100  ext. 2339
Fax: (608)276-6328 
me -dot- schutz -at- thermo -dot- com

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