Word 2007 on Win7.

I'm trying to copy a series of sentences (in 1 document) into a table
(in a 2nd document). So:

1) imagine a table, e.g. 1 column wide, 3 rows deep.
2) three sentences:
John ran fast.
Simon talked quickly.
Sally left early.

If I select all three sentences, copy, then select the three rows and
paste, I get a table with:

John
Simon
Sally

in each row. That is, it only copies the first word of each.

Any ideas? Thanks!

If your table is set to fixed column width, maybe the rests of the
sentences are there, only hiding behind the cell boundary. You could
check by typing a Return or a Shift Return after the last visible
character in the cell.

On Aug 4, 12:11*pm, hander <pokerhan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Word 2007 on Win7.
>
> I'm trying to copy a series of sentences (in 1 document) into a table
> (in a 2nd document). So:
>
> 1) imagine a table, e.g. 1 column wide, 3 rows deep.
> 2) three sentences:
> John ran fast.
> Simon talked quickly.
> Sally left early.
>
> If I select all three sentences, copy, then select the three rows and
> paste, I get a table with:
>
> John
> Simon
> Sally
>
> in each row. That is, it only copies the first word of each.
>
> Any ideas? Thanks!

No, nothing is there. Can anyone reproduce this? Maybe it's just my
Office...

Update: Works fine in Word safe mode...

And here's someone with exactly the same issue.
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...096c9d9bd3599e
The explanation/workaround is too cumbersome. And if it works in safe
mode, it might be a settings issue that I could override in normal
mode.

Any ideas?

See if you have any (poorly designed) add-ins installed:
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/customizat...sInstalled.htm.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
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"hander" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:98a892da-2427-4e43-bb87-(E-Mail Removed)...
> And here's someone with exactly the same issue.
> http://groups.google.com/group/micro...096c9d9bd3599e
> The explanation/workaround is too cumbersome. And if it works in safe
> mode, it might be a settings issue that I could override in normal
> mode.
>
> Any ideas?
>

No add-ins installed. Can anyone just confirm that this does/doesn't
happen to them?

On Aug 6, 10:10*pm, hander <pokerhan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> No add-ins installed. Can anyone just confirm that this does/doesn't
> happen to them?

Oh, all right.

Exactly the same thing happened to me.

But when I copied and pasted one paragraph into one cell, it worked
fine.

(What I expected was that all three paragraphs would appear in all
three cells.)

Are you saying that you can reproduce the behavior described by the OP?

FWIW, I do find that when pasting, the outcome seems to depend on whether I
select whole rows or just part of rows. For example, in a five rows, six columns
table, selecting (say) three full rows and pasting, paragraph 1 gets pasted into
the selected cells of the first column, paragraph 2 into the cells of the second
column, and paragraph 3 into the cells of the third column.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
(Message posted via news.eternal-september.org)



"Peter T. Daniels" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:58b2ea4b-9377-4811-9f69-(E-Mail Removed)...
On Aug 6, 10:10 pm, hander <pokerhan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> No add-ins installed. Can anyone just confirm that this does/doesn't
> happen to them?

Oh, all right.

Exactly the same thing happened to me.

But when I copied and pasted one paragraph into one cell, it worked
fine.

(What I expected was that all three paragraphs would appear in all
three cells.)

Yup -- I did exactly what he said: create a 1-col, 3-row table, type 3
sentences, each its own paragraph, copy them to clipboard as a block,
select the three cells, paste. The first word of a sentence appeared
in each cell.

I didn't take care not to select the right-of-cell paragraph marks.
That might make a difference.

On Aug 7, 12:52*pm, "Stefan Blom"
<StefanB...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Are you saying that you can reproduce the behavior described by the OP?
>
> FWIW, I do find that when pasting, the outcome seems to depend on whetherI
> select whole rows or just part of rows. For example, in a five rows, six columns
> table, selecting (say) three full rows and pasting, paragraph 1 gets pasted into
> the selected cells of the first column, paragraph 2 into the cells of thesecond
> column, and paragraph 3 into the cells of the third column.
>
> --
> Stefan Blom
> Microsoft Word MVP
> (Message posted via news.eternal-september.org)
>
> "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@verizon.net> wrote in messagenews:58b2ea4b-9377-4811-9f69-(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Aug 6, 10:10 pm, hander <pokerhan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > No add-ins installed. Can anyone just confirm that this does/doesn't
> > happen to them?
>
> Oh, all right.
>
> Exactly the same thing happened to me.
>
> But when I copied and pasted one paragraph into one cell, it worked
> fine.
>
> (What I expected was that all three paragraphs would appear in all
> three cells.)