I have a nice template consisting of a table filling a whole page in Word 2013.
Every time I copy it from one document to another, the table expands by all rows "growing" so that it then takes up a page and a half.
Does anybody know what happens and how to avoid it?
I tried the same with Word 2003, but with exactly the same result.


HELP!!!
FIN

That could be the result of the paragraph formatting in the source document's table using Style definitions that have different specifications from those of Styles with the same name in the target document. Ideally, you'd use the same Style definitions in both documents - and not override those definitions with 'hard formatting' in either document. That way the problem wouldn't arise. That said, if you go to File|Options|Advanced>Cut, copy & paste, choosing the 'Keep source formatting' for both versions of 'Pasting between documents' should provide a workaround.

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Paul Edstein
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