Carriage returns between tables

[Guest]

Tony Jollans, in response to my post “End of table cell character†provided
me with a great macro that splits a table into a series of tables, each one
being one line. I now have a situation in which a single carriage return
separates each table.

I have tried to run the “search and replace†function to change the existing
Normal style, of the carriage returns between tables, to a dedicated style.
The Replace function ignores the format and jumps to the next Normal
character. It replaces the style only in cases where there is non-tabular
text below the carriage return.
Has anyone encountered and contended with this phenomenon?
Thanks,

 

[Tony Jollans]

I don't think it's my fault just because I gave you the code

I haven't come acros it before but can reproduce it in 2003 and 2000.
Fascinating.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This is a known issue. Word refuses to let F&R do anything with a paragraph
(mark) immediately preceding a table. It can't be deleted even if there are
other paragraphs above it; it can't be formatted; it's just ignored. This
behavior is very annoying.

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

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[Guest]

Thanks for the depressing news. I overcame this with a bit of manual labor. I
inserted extral carriage returns after each table, used F&R to replace one
with a text string and then used F&R to format the text.