Please help; whenever I select and/or type into a Word 2007 Table Cell, the entire cell is colored dark blue and I cannot see the cursor or text. This is an incredible annoyance; I cannot find a way to turn the feature/annoyance off. This makes working with tables almost impossible and I use...

In Search & Replace (Find & Replace) where paragraph signs are involved, one would use ^p in normal text or ^13 when using wild cards. What are the equivalent codes when using Search & Replace in tables?

hi all, office 2003 pro sp2, wxp pro sp2, large documents (300+ pages and increasing) numerous figures and tables. i wonder whether there is a way to link a mention of the table within the text to the table itself. what i mean and what i want to achieve: for example, the text would say,...

I have a small table with 4 or 5 fields that calculate based on the first fields value. However, I need one field to calculate based on an IF function. I know how to write it in excel: =IF(SUM(H9*15%)1500,SUM(H9*15%),1500) but how do I write something like this in Word? I need to write...

Greetings, I have a table in my word document. One of the cells is numeric in format. I have set the number format to 0.00%. The problem is when I enter 8.7 it converts it to 870%. I want it to be 8.7%. How do I do this ? Do I have to create a macro that mathematically converts it ? thanks,

I'm putting tables inside of newspaper columns. My first table doesn't necessarily fill the first column, but I want the second table to be at the top of the second column. When I use a column break after the first table, I cannot find any way to get the second table to line up at the top of the...

I have set up in MS Word a main document and source document, which performs a mail merge to produce a Form Letter. The mail merge works OK and the appropriate Merge Fields are correctly inserted into the Form Letter. The main document is an advice to individuals and team leaders re...

I want to anchor bookmark and linked to and from text at the top of Word pages. I have a table that overflows and I would like to include bookmark and links at the start of each page where the table overflows. When the table overflows it pushes the text “page 2” bookmark down to a third page the...

I used to have a customized keyboard shortcut to bring up the Borders & Shading dialog box for a table. I'm starting over because my normal.dot is very old and probably corrupt so I want a fresh start. I'm using Word 2003. I cannot find in the shortcuts anything that will give me this dialog box....

Hi, It's not for lack of trying to find the answer but after 20 minutes of trying to figure out how to total columns in a Word 2007 table, I have failed. Can anyone point me to some documentation (or better yet just tell me) how to correctly insert a formula that will total columns in a table....

How can I get 'table math' computations (i.e., numbers returned from 'formulas') in WORD tables to be formatted the way I want them to? -- e.g., to include a 'following zero' (e.g., 70.10 instead of 70.1) and commas in thousands (6,863.63 instead of 6863.63) - ? Thanks.

I've got a series of Word documents that are composed largely of tables... this for annotation in what becomes a wide margin. Under Word in Office 2000 I never had a problem, except that Widow/Orphan control didn't seem to work in tables. No big deal, this could be managed manually. But now,...

I have a table that has birthday dates. The info in the table was imported from Excel with the dates formatted as 'mmmm dd'. However, they imported as I entered them: mm/dd/yy. I don't want the years to show. How can I format these dates in my table to reflect only the Birth Date? (rather than...

I am trying to find a way to keep Word from changing my before and after paragraph spacing in a table from point to line. For example, when I type in just the number 3 in the before and just the number 3 in the after under Format/Paragraph/Line Spacing it automatically changes it to 0.6 lines. ...

I was trying to create a simple form with Word 2007. I placed several tables on a page and then proceeded to delete a row from the top table. Oddly enough, this caused another table to jump to the top portion of the page and it would not be placed back into position. It's the strangest...

I have a 3 column table 12 pages long; I want to show more entries of the table on a page, but the 'column' cmd will not work. Incidentally, the word 'column' is used 2 ways in the application: a) 'column's in a table b) 'column's per page I want the table to appear in more...

When I am editing a large table, which I do a LOT, the cursor flickers crazily while the spellchecker icon is working in the bar at the bottom of the window. I turned off the spellchecker, gramar checker and the smart tags and the spellchecker icon went away. This makes the flicker not las as...

Greetings, I have a table in Word 2003 and would like to do an “IF” statement on a Text Form Field, type - Calculation. The problem is: If CellA multiplied by CellB is $150 or less, the answer is $150; otherwise the answer is the result of CellA multiplied by CellB. The expression would be this...

Hello How to increase spaces between dashes in the dashed line? There is only one dashed line with the same bigger dashes in Word. Thanks

I want to place a title on the line preceding the table, but I want it to stay and look "attached" to the table like a caption. The way it is, the Title is on a separate line, and when I can't close up the space between the title and the table. The title looks like it "belongs" to the...