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Ken - 08 Jun 2005 23:28 GMT

Hi There:

This is a weird little problem, but I can't seem to track down the cause.
When I Cut or Copy a table in Word 2002 (in Windows XP), the table formatting
is lost when I paste it. For some reason, the application translates the
table formatting to tab characters. I have looked in the Clipboard and have
confirmed the table formatting is intact there, but when I Paste, the table
formatting is gone.

Thoughts please! Many thanks.

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 10 Jun 2005 08:17 GMT

Hi =?Utf-8?B?S2Vu?=,

> This is a weird little problem, but I can't seem to track down the cause.
> When I Cut or Copy a table in Word 2002 (in Windows XP), the table formatting
> is lost when I paste it. For some reason, the application translates the
> table formatting to tab characters. I have looked in the Clipboard and have
> confirmed the table formatting is intact there, but when I Paste, the table
> formatting is gone.

Check in Edit/Paste Special which formats are listed. Probably only plain text,
but worth looking at.

This would mean that something on your system is interfering with putting RTF or
HTML format on the Clipboard. Are you seeing problems with any other Office
applications, such as Excel? Are you able to paste formatting from text (no
tables) in Word?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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Veronica - 27 Jul 2006 16:46 GMT

Hello,

A colleague had the same issue when using Word 2003. He was copying an
existing table and then when pasting it, the table did not paste, only the
text did. The strangest part is that he repeated the action a couple of times
and sometimes the paste would work (the table pasted fine). I am interested
to know why this happens as well.

Thanks,

Veronica

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