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Justifying one column in a table forces the same justification on all of them.
Using Word 2002 in Office XP. All updates in place.
I have a 3 x 56 table in a Word document that is behaving very strangely. If I select and (say) right-justify any one of the three columns, the other two columns are also right-justified even though they're not selected. If I try and left-justify one of the columns, all three switch to left-justification. What could be the cause of this behavior and how can I fix it? I want the first two columns to be left-justified and the third right-justified but Word won't let me do it. -- Bob http://www.kanyak.com |
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Justifying one column in a table forces the same justification on all of them.
I have seen this and found it most frustrating. I never did have time to
troubleshoot, so I used the best available workaround: if you select just part of the column and format it, you won't see this behavior; you can then format the remaining cells. I suspect that it indicates that the document or table is somehow corrupt, though it's hard to see how this can happen in a brand-new document. I would think it was a variation on the "Automatic update" bug (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...eformatted.htm), but I know this was not true in my case. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Opinicus" wrote in message ... Using Word 2002 in Office XP. All updates in place. I have a 3 x 56 table in a Word document that is behaving very strangely. If I select and (say) right-justify any one of the three columns, the other two columns are also right-justified even though they're not selected. If I try and left-justify one of the columns, all three switch to left-justification. What could be the cause of this behavior and how can I fix it? I want the first two columns to be left-justified and the third right-justified but Word won't let me do it. -- Bob http://www.kanyak.com |
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Justifying one column in a table forces the same justification on all of them.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote
I have seen this and found it most frustrating. I never did have time to troubleshoot, so I used the best available workaround: if you select just part of the column and format it, you won't see this behavior; you can then format the remaining cells. That worked. Thanks. I suspect that it indicates that the document or table is somehow corrupt, though it's hard to see how this can happen in a brand-new document. It wasn't really a brand-new document. The original table was copied from a document provided by a client and I translated (typed over) it. Thanks for the work-around. -- Bob http://www.kanyak.com |
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Justifying one column in a table forces the same justification on all of them.
My document *was* brand-new, created by me, so I couldn't think of any
logical explanation. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Opinicus" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote I have seen this and found it most frustrating. I never did have time to troubleshoot, so I used the best available workaround: if you select just part of the column and format it, you won't see this behavior; you can then format the remaining cells. That worked. Thanks. I suspect that it indicates that the document or table is somehow corrupt, though it's hard to see how this can happen in a brand-new document. It wasn't really a brand-new document. The original table was copied from a document provided by a client and I translated (typed over) it. Thanks for the work-around. -- Bob http://www.kanyak.com |
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