Use of Tables

[Guest]

Whenever I use tables, I frequently find that they move around on me unexpectedly. Sometimes this happens when I'm printing a documtent so that the page I printed does not look like like the same page on my monitor. Often I get the tables where I want them, save and close the file, and the next time I open the file I find that the tables I thought I had fixed have now moved and are overlapping. I had this problem in Word 1997 and now I having the very same problem in Word 2002. How can I stop this from happening? I find this time consuming and very frustrating. Any help with this problem will be greatly appreciated.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I don't see how this could happen if the tables are inline. Are you wrapping
them?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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Whenever I use tables, I frequently find that they move around on me

unexpectedly. Sometimes this happens when I'm printing a documtent so that
the page I printed does not look like like the same page on my monitor.
Often I get the tables where I want them, save and close the file, and the
next time I open the file I find that the tables I thought I had fixed have
now moved and are overlapping. I had this problem in Word 1997 and now I
having the very same problem in Word 2002. How can I stop this from
happening? I find this time consuming and very frustrating. Any help with
this problem will be greatly appreciated.

 

[Guest]

Hi Suzanne

Thank you for your response

I'm not sure what you mean by inline and wrapping? I am attempting to wrap text around the tables, is this what you mean by wrapping? I have also told Word not to move the tables with the text. I have had this problem with tables in several documents

I hope that this additional information will help you spread some additional light on my problem

Planne

----- Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: ----

I don't see how this could happen if the tables are inline. Are you wrappin
them

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Suzanne S. Barnhil
Microsoft MVP (Word
Words into Typ
Fairhope, Alabama US
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/wor
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup s
all may benefit

Whenever I use tables, I frequently find that they move around on m

unexpectedly. Sometimes this happens when I'm printing a documtent so tha
the page I printed does not look like like the same page on my monitor
Often I get the tables where I want them, save and close the file, and th
next time I open the file I find that the tables I thought I had fixed hav
now moved and are overlapping. I had this problem in Word 1997 and now
having the very same problem in Word 2002. How can I stop this fro
happening? I find this time consuming and very frustrating. Any help wit
this problem will be greatly appreciated

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Yes, that's what I meant. Whenever you make tables, graphics, or any other
object "wrapped" (wrap text around them), you're likely to have problems
keeping them in the right place.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

Hi Suzanne,

Thank you for your response.

I'm not sure what you mean by inline and wrapping? I am attempting to wrap

text around the tables, is this what you mean by wrapping? I have also told
Word not to move the tables with the text. I have had this problem with
tables in several documents.

I hope that this additional information will help you spread some

additional light on my problem.