Thanks macropod.

I think it's corruption of some kind, rather than a printer issue. I use 3 printers (2 color, 1 laser mono) and haven't had any unusual results from other docs or texts.

I'd tried converting table to text and back but that resulted in a mess, so I reset.

The RTF suggestion sounds interesting. Not sure I understand the 'new, empty paragraph' method. I'll have to think about it. Duh.

I've just had another thought. I've been comparing docs 'side-by-side' of late and it's just occurred to me that I could open my bad doc alongside another one with an identical but empty table. The other one could be prepared in another of my computers that also runs Word 2003.

Then I could just copy\paste the text from each cell of the bad one to the new one.

Feasible?