I have an Office 365 Word (vsn 2501) doc with many tables in it. At the time i made the doc, some months ago, I very carefully set the tables up (margins, padding, etc, etc) to precisely fit on the pages. For most, I ensured that there was generous space top and bottom. But some of them were tight fits. Yet all was well during the editing process. A pdf I made from the doc was just fine.


Now, months later, I open up the same doc to continue editing. All the tables that were tight fits have decided to spill over rows to the next page. I have changed nothing about the doc. The page size, table properties, etc are exactly as I created them.


My questions to you, Word sages, are:
1. Why has this happened?
2. Is there a easy way to rectify it, without redesigning all the tight-fit tables?


Thank you for your time,
Garry

Can you attach a sample document with the problem?
Attach a Sample File Demonstrating the Problem - Here's How

Resources:

• Why has my page layout changed when I open my document on a different machine? by Suzanne Barnhill, MVP
• Improving the Bottom Line by Suzanne Barnhill, MVP

On the same machine and Word version the most likely candidates are:
1. Different printer driver
2. Font has been installed that previously was substituted
3. Attached Template styles have been modified and you set your document to refresh styles on open.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

Hi All:
Thanks so much for the replies. I have uploaded a selection of the tables from the good pdf. As you can, they are fine. Unfortunately, I get a connection reset error when I try to upload the Word doc with the awry tables. I'll wok on it.

As to Andrew's excellent suggestions:
1. As far as I know, the printer drivers are the same as they have been for years.
2. Same fonts installed when the doc was created, and now.
3. Update styles automatically OFF.
4. I read Suzanne's suggestions, and fiddled with changing the printers. No, tables still awry.

Thanks for your time.
Garry

Attached Files

Stevens good tables in pdf.pdf (133.8 KB, 4 views)

Hi All:
Well, the easiest way is to provide the Word doc with the bad tables is from a Dropbox link.


Dropbox


If you compare it to the pdf of that file senbt previously (from about page 54) you will see the tables have moved a lot.


Thank you for yopr time,
Garry

Please attach you document to your post here, not on a 3rd-party site. The process is exactly the same as for the PDF you attached. And we don't need the entire 183-page document, just the part(s) exhibiting the problem.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Hi All:


Thanks for the reply. I got the pdf file to upload but not the Word doc.


I trimmed the Word doc down to just the problematic tables, set font embedding to just the characters used, and zipped it, but it was still larger than the 2 Mb zip limit.


Of course, the fonts used will affect the table sizing, so I can't change that.
Thanks everyone for their time.


Sigh.
Garry

One obvious difference is that your Word document employs the font Noto Sans, but that font isn't referenced in your PDF. Using Find/Replace to swap the Noto Sans font with Arial (the Windows approximation of Helvetica used in your PDF) seems to resolve the problem.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]