I selected a row and dragged it to a new location, but instead of moving the whole row, as expected, Word replaced the contents of existing cells in the destination row.
A1:
Although you thought you selected the entire row, you actually selected all the cells in the rows. To make sure you select the entire row, you need to have Word show you the end-of-row markers—which are visible only if you show paragraph marks (choose Tools, Options, click the View tab, and check the Paragraph Marks box). If you want to click and drag a table row to a new location, select the entire row—including the end-of-row marker—and then click and drag, as you would with any other Word component.
When I insert a lot of text (or graphics) in a table cell, I can't see all of it. The bottom is chopped off.
A1:
Chances are good you did something to make Word set the row height using the "Exactly" option. To restore the default setting—in which rows grow and shrink to fit the contents—open the Table Properties dialog box (choose Table, Table Properties), click the Row tab, and uncheck the Specify Height box.
When I use Word's Convert Text to Table feature, occasionally it does the conversion incorrectly, and the table is off by a cell or two.
A1:
Immediately after converting text to a table, look at the last row of the table and verify that it matches the last row of the selected data. If you're off by one or two cells (typically, one or two cells will be dangling at the bottom of the table), you probably have a stray delimiter character somewhere in the selected text. Scan the table to see whether you can locate it. Click the Undo button or press Ctrl+Z, fix the data, and try the conversion again.
Tip from
One of the hardest characters to find is a Tab character that's "squished" between two pieces of text—or, worse, two or more tab characters in succession that aren't entirely visible because text surrounds them. You can select the text and use Find to search for single or double tabs—look for ^t or ^t^t.
When I add a column to a table (or adjust the width of a column), I no longer can see the last column.
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The table is too wide to fit in the defined margins, and if you try to view the document in Print Layout view, you won't see the portion that falls off the page. Switch into Normal view (choose View, Normal), and use the horizontal scrollbar to move to the right.
Word insists on waiting until the end of a cell before it triggers a page break. As a result, my tables flip-flop all over the page: Some pages have only one row showing, and it looks horrible.
A1:
By default, Word generates a page break only at the bottom of a cell. If your cells are large, you might end up with an unsightly mess. To get Word to relax a bit, click once inside the table, and choose Table, Table Properties. In the Table Properties dialog box, click the Table tab, click the Options button, and clear the Allow Table to Break Across Pages box.
