Table Rows Not Printing in Word (Table Originated in Excel)

[JingleBelle]

I have a couple of tables in a Word document that originated in Excel. I copied the tables from Excel into Word and reformatted them to a house style. Those tables contain blank rows. In the printed hard copy, those blank rows were suppressed (i.e., did not print), meaning the the electronic copy and the hard copy did not match. As a quick workaround, I added a space in one cell of each row to get the blank rows to print.

After some extensive googling and reviewing the xml code of my document, I discovered the cause is the <w:hideMark /> element.

Is there some cell formatting in the original Excel file that causes this <w:hideMark /> to appear? It is random in that it only affects some tables. Other tables I copied from Excel into my MS Word document printed as they appeared.



I've spent hours researching this, and I'm still at a loss. I'm hoping an expert, here, can provide an explanation.