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Bizarre paragraph shading behavior
I am writing a long (long document) book with quite a few figures and
especially tables. One, and only one table, is behaving in a way I have never experienced before in any of my many years of working with Word. Each time the document is saved, some cells (the number and pattern changes from one save to the next) have blue shading on the "paragraphs" within the cell. This shading can be removed by selecting the table--or any shaded cells therein--going to FormatBorders and ShadingShading, clicking on "No Fill," choosing Paragraph under "Apply To," and then Okay. The problem is that shading of some cells reappears in this table each time it is saved. Oddly too, copying it to an empty document removes the shading from the table but the shading behavior reappears if the table is copied back into the manuscript document. Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this and, more importantly, how to fix it? I am not at all keen on recreating the whole table from scratch. Thanks for any help! |
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Bizarre paragraph shading behavior
Hi,
It's possible the table has become corrupt. If you convert the table to text (eg with tab separators), remove any extraneous formatting that you see, then convert the text back to a table (eg again with tab separators), that should fix the problem. If you're already using tabs in the table cells, use another character that the table doesn't have (eg tilde). Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] wrote in message ups.com... I am writing a long (long document) book with quite a few figures and especially tables. One, and only one table, is behaving in a way I have never experienced before in any of my many years of working with Word. Each time the document is saved, some cells (the number and pattern changes from one save to the next) have blue shading on the "paragraphs" within the cell. This shading can be removed by selecting the table--or any shaded cells therein--going to FormatBorders and ShadingShading, clicking on "No Fill," choosing Paragraph under "Apply To," and then Okay. The problem is that shading of some cells reappears in this table each time it is saved. Oddly too, copying it to an empty document removes the shading from the table but the shading behavior reappears if the table is copied back into the manuscript document. Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this and, more importantly, how to fix it? I am not at all keen on recreating the whole table from scratch. Thanks for any help! |
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Bizarre paragraph shading behavior
Thanks for the suggestion.
I played with it a bit late last night and discovered with "Reveal Formatting" that I had inadvertently applied a table style. Having then done quite a bit of modification of the table with the table drawing tools (which is why I didn't relish restarting from scratch) I had "split up" the colored cells in a strange way. Anyway, all's well that ends well--once I removed the table style everything returned to normal. Thanks again for the suggestion though. macropod wrote: Hi, It's possible the table has become corrupt. If you convert the table to text (eg with tab separators), remove any extraneous formatting that you see, then convert the text back to a table (eg again with tab separators), that should fix the problem. If you're already using tabs in the table cells, use another character that the table doesn't have (eg tilde). Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] wrote in message ups.com... I am writing a long (long document) book with quite a few figures and especially tables. One, and only one table, is behaving in a way I have never experienced before in any of my many years of working with Word. Each time the document is saved, some cells (the number and pattern changes from one save to the next) have blue shading on the "paragraphs" within the cell. This shading can be removed by selecting the table--or any shaded cells therein--going to FormatBorders and ShadingShading, clicking on "No Fill," choosing Paragraph under "Apply To," and then Okay. The problem is that shading of some cells reappears in this table each time it is saved. Oddly too, copying it to an empty document removes the shading from the table but the shading behavior reappears if the table is copied back into the manuscript document. Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this and, more importantly, how to fix it? I am not at all keen on recreating the whole table from scratch. Thanks for any help! |
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