atw: Re: Strange floating table in Word
- From: "Fullerton, Elizabeth" <Elizabeth.Fullerton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 08:02:30 +1100
Thanks Daryl, I'm going to check that out - the doc is source controlled =
(I usually check in a couple of times a day, to reduce =
corruption-induced rework) (oh, and for access for the people who are =
unfortunately forced to depend on a document which remains in draft due =
to circumstances beyond my control) - I like to know how these things =
get started.
I do have a macro for formatting our tables (there are hundreds of the =
little buggers in any document) - but it doesn't cover every =
eventuality, such as a "no frames" setting on the styles!
-----Original Message-----
From: Daryl Colquhoun [mailto:atw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, 3 March 2004 8:52 PM
To: austechwriter list
Subject: atw: Re: Strange floating table in Word
>...Then I converted the table to text, and lo and behold, it was in a
floating frame! There was no way I could tell this before I converted =
the
table to text - it resisted all my efforts to find this when in table
format... Word strikes again!
Maybe the frame was there in the first place. There's a feature in Word =
2000
which is, I suspect, little known, which is that you can attach frame
information to a style, using Format > Style > Modify > Format > Frame. =
So
if this attribute had somehow been applied to something in the table ...
maybe it could have caused it. Such a 'framed' style in a table gives no
indication, even with all boundaries, hidden chars, etc turned on. You =
did
say that the tables in the doc are mostly clones of each other, so I =
realise
it's a bit of a long shot but it has happened to docs of mine, perhaps
through my accidentally hitting some shortcut key combination that I =
don't
know about.
If you want to find out whether this was the problem, or part of it, =
you're
going to have to resurrect the corrupt version and experiment, and maybe
it's not worth the trouble.
I don't know what this feature is good for, but I suspect it's to handle
some sort of legacy situation.
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