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Tables in Microsoft Word 2003

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by knielsen

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I have a user who has sent out a Word template with tables imbedded in the document. The tables are filled in by remote users and the document is emailed back. Occaisionally, one of the forms will come back unusable. The tables have expanded to fill the page width, which also causes it to expand over the header and footer. It also doesn't page-break. The table cuts off at the bottom of the first page and all other cells and text is hidden below the bottom border when in print layout. When in web layout we are able to see all cells and text, but when we then print the document it expands the table and we lose the the lower cells and text.

I have not found any settings that would cause the table to go to page width. Does anyone have any insight as to what might be causing this phenomenon? Thanks for any assistance.

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by tintoman

This can happen if the word 2003 document is opened in office 2007 I have discovered, I would make sure all users are using the same version of word and that their default save or save as function is set to word 97-2003 and not RTF or some other format

by knielsen

The user receiving the problems documents did have Office 2007 installed on her computer, but when she was having trouble formatting documents I uninstalled 2007 and installed Office 2003. I am using Office 2007 and see the tables displayed the same way, but am able to transfer the data to a new copy of the template and send it to her and she can see everything just fine.

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