Copying sentences into tables

[hander]

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!

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

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.

 

[hander]

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

 

[hander]

Update: Works fine in Word safe mode...

 

[hander]

And here's someone with exactly the same issue.
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...nk=gst&q=paste+rows+in+table#ba096c9d9bd3599e
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?

 

[Stefan Blom]

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

 

[hander]

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

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

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.)

 

[Stefan Blom]

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
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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.)

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

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.

 

[Stefan Blom]

Sorry, I don't see that behavior (using Word 2007, Windows XP).

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



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.

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

So maybe it's a Vista thing! (I'll try to remember to try it on the
Windows 7 laptop.)