Re-appearing table borders

[Jeff Boyce]

Tried Google, tried Microsoft KB, tried Word HELP, haven't found even a
reference to the issue:

Created a Word Merge document in which a table has its borders
"removed"/hidden.

After merging in data (multiple records), I attempt to copy the document (as
merged) and paste into a new (empty) document. The table's borders
reappear.

The borders can be re-removed, but this is a lot of extra work. We need to
treat the merge as individual documents after merge.

Anyone else seen this? Any solutions? Any preventions?

Thanks

Jeff

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Make sure that the default Table AutoFormat (table style) in the new
document is set to Table Normal (not Table Grid).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Jeff Boyce]

Thanks, Suzanne.

Jeff

Make sure that the default Table AutoFormat (table style) in the new
document is set to Table Normal (not Table Grid).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Jeff Boyce]

Suzanne

Even with that setting, we're still getting re-appearing table borders.

The document from which we are working is suspect, in my mind.

I recreated the document in Word, after setting Table Normal (and saving to
the Normal.dot template). No problems, and the file is roughly half the
suspect file's size. Cut/paste to a new document has no glitches.

The suspect file still has the problem with cut/paste to new document
resulting in the re-appearing table borders.

Any other possibilities? On a practical note, I've swapped out the errant
merge document for the newly-rebuilt copy. I'm still curious if there are
other settings I should be checking on, or if it's likely that the original
document is "munged".

Thanks

Jeff

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Perhaps select Table Normal as the default table style in the mail merge
main document as well? That is, instead of removing the borders from a table
in Table Grid style, apply the Table Normal style? You might also try
posting in microsoft.public.word.tables to see if anyone there has any
better ideas.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Jeff Boyce]

Thanks Suzanne.

Jeff

Perhaps select Table Normal as the default table style in the mail merge
main document as well? That is, instead of removing the borders from a
table
in Table Grid style, apply the Table Normal style? You might also try
posting in microsoft.public.word.tables to see if anyone there has any
better ideas.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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