Table copy/paste suddenly text-only

mjcoon · #5 03-23-2012, 12:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by macropod

Hi Mike,

Are you sure these errant cells don't actually have tabbed content in them that you can't ordinarily see? It would be quite bizarre for Windows to copy something that wasn't actually selected.

FWIW, reinstalling Word rarely achieves anything that a repair won't.

Hi Paul, thank you for considering this aberrant, weird, bizarre and infuriating behaviour!

And, yes, I did the "Repair" from the Help as you suggested as well, and it's still the same.

Just to verify, I opened a new document and typed a tabbed alphabet as:

Quote:

A b c d e f
G h I j k l
M n o p q r

(It was all in lower case, so those capitals are something else strange!)

The I used Table->Convert text to Table to construct a six by three table, which looks fine. I highlight an arbitrary complete column, copy it, move to the end of the document and paste. I should get a one by three table with just the column content, but I get the tabbed text exactly as I quote above.

Happy to do any experiment that might get closer to a resolution!

TIA, Mike (retired after 40+ years in IT!).

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