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Copying sentences into tables
Word 2007 on Win7.
I'm trying to copy a series of sentences (in 1 document) into a table (in a 2nd document). So: 1) imagine a table, e.g. 1 column wide, 3 rows deep. 2) three sentences: John ran fast. Simon talked quickly. Sally left early. If I select all three sentences, copy, then select the three rows and paste, I get a table with: John Simon Sally in each row. That is, it only copies the first word of each. Any ideas? Thanks! |
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Copying sentences into tables
If your table is set to fixed column width, maybe the rests of the
sentences are there, only hiding behind the cell boundary. You could check by typing a Return or a Shift Return after the last visible character in the cell. On Aug 4, 12:11*pm, hander wrote: Word 2007 on Win7. I'm trying to copy a series of sentences (in 1 document) into a table (in a 2nd document). So: 1) imagine a table, e.g. 1 column wide, 3 rows deep. 2) three sentences: John ran fast. Simon talked quickly. Sally left early. If I select all three sentences, copy, then select the three rows and paste, I get a table with: John Simon Sally in each row. That is, it only copies the first word of each. Any ideas? Thanks! |
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No, nothing is there. Can anyone reproduce this? Maybe it's just my
Office... |
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Update: Works fine in Word safe mode...
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And here's someone with exactly the same issue.
http://groups.google.com/group/micro... 96c9d9bd3599e The explanation/workaround is too cumbersome. And if it works in safe mode, it might be a settings issue that I could override in normal mode. Any ideas? |
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See if you have any (poorly designed) add-ins installed:
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/customizat...sInstalled.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP (Message posted via news.eternal-september.org) "hander" wrote in message ... And here's someone with exactly the same issue. http://groups.google.com/group/micro... 96c9d9bd3599e The explanation/workaround is too cumbersome. And if it works in safe mode, it might be a settings issue that I could override in normal mode. Any ideas? |
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No add-ins installed. Can anyone just confirm that this does/doesn't
happen to them? |
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On Aug 6, 10:10*pm, hander wrote:
No add-ins installed. Can anyone just confirm that this does/doesn't happen to them? Oh, all right. Exactly the same thing happened to me. But when I copied and pasted one paragraph into one cell, it worked fine. (What I expected was that all three paragraphs would appear in all three cells.) |
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Are you saying that you can reproduce the behavior described by the OP?
FWIW, I do find that when pasting, the outcome seems to depend on whether I select whole rows or just part of rows. For example, in a five rows, six columns table, selecting (say) three full rows and pasting, paragraph 1 gets pasted into the selected cells of the first column, paragraph 2 into the cells of the second column, and paragraph 3 into the cells of the third column. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP (Message posted via news.eternal-september.org) "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message ... On Aug 6, 10:10 pm, hander wrote: No add-ins installed. Can anyone just confirm that this does/doesn't happen to them? Oh, all right. Exactly the same thing happened to me. But when I copied and pasted one paragraph into one cell, it worked fine. (What I expected was that all three paragraphs would appear in all three cells.) |
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Yup -- I did exactly what he said: create a 1-col, 3-row table, type 3
sentences, each its own paragraph, copy them to clipboard as a block, select the three cells, paste. The first word of a sentence appeared in each cell. I didn't take care not to select the right-of-cell paragraph marks. That might make a difference. On Aug 7, 12:52*pm, "Stefan Blom" wrote: Are you saying that you can reproduce the behavior described by the OP? FWIW, I do find that when pasting, the outcome seems to depend on whether I select whole rows or just part of rows. For example, in a five rows, six columns table, selecting (say) three full rows and pasting, paragraph 1 gets pasted into the selected cells of the first column, paragraph 2 into the cells of the second column, and paragraph 3 into the cells of the third column. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP (Message posted via news.eternal-september.org) "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ... On Aug 6, 10:10 pm, hander wrote: No add-ins installed. Can anyone just confirm that this does/doesn't happen to them? Oh, all right. Exactly the same thing happened to me. But when I copied and pasted one paragraph into one cell, it worked fine. (What I expected was that all three paragraphs would appear in all three cells.) |
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Sorry, I don't see that behavior (using Word 2007, Windows XP).
-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP (Message posted via news.eternal-september.org) "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message ... Yup -- I did exactly what he said: create a 1-col, 3-row table, type 3 sentences, each its own paragraph, copy them to clipboard as a block, select the three cells, paste. The first word of a sentence appeared in each cell. I didn't take care not to select the right-of-cell paragraph marks. That might make a difference. On Aug 7, 12:52 pm, "Stefan Blom" wrote: Are you saying that you can reproduce the behavior described by the OP? FWIW, I do find that when pasting, the outcome seems to depend on whether I select whole rows or just part of rows. For example, in a five rows, six columns table, selecting (say) three full rows and pasting, paragraph 1 gets pasted into the selected cells of the first column, paragraph 2 into the cells of the second column, and paragraph 3 into the cells of the third column. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP (Message posted via news.eternal-september.org) "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ... On Aug 6, 10:10 pm, hander wrote: No add-ins installed. Can anyone just confirm that this does/doesn't happen to them? Oh, all right. Exactly the same thing happened to me. But when I copied and pasted one paragraph into one cell, it worked fine. (What I expected was that all three paragraphs would appear in all three cells.) |
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So maybe it's a Vista thing! (I'll try to remember to try it on the
Windows 7 laptop.) On Aug 9, 7:44*am, "Stefan Blom" wrote: Sorry, I don't see that behavior (using Word 2007, Windows XP). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP (Message posted via news.eternal-september.org) "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ... Yup -- I did exactly what he said: create a 1-col, 3-row table, type 3 sentences, each its own paragraph, copy them to clipboard as a block, select the three cells, paste. The first word of a sentence appeared in each cell. I didn't take care not to select the right-of-cell paragraph marks. That might make a difference. On Aug 7, 12:52 pm, "Stefan Blom" wrote: Are you saying that you can reproduce the behavior described by the OP? FWIW, I do find that when pasting, the outcome seems to depend on whether I select whole rows or just part of rows. For example, in a five rows, six columns table, selecting (say) three full rows and pasting, paragraph 1 gets pasted into the selected cells of the first column, paragraph 2 into the cells of the second column, and paragraph 3 into the cells of the third column. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP (Message posted via news.eternal-september.org) "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ... On Aug 6, 10:10 pm, hander wrote: No add-ins installed. Can anyone just confirm that this does/doesn't happen to them? Oh, all right. Exactly the same thing happened to me. But when I copied and pasted one paragraph into one cell, it worked fine. (What I expected was that all three paragraphs would appear in all three cells.)- |
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