Your description suggests the problem is with Simple Syllabus, rather than Word. If you copy a table from Word into Outlook or Gmail, for example, the entire table is reproduced there. Formatting might change a bit, due to the way the other apps work, but fonts, alignments, borders, shading, etc, are all faithfully reproduced.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]