Microsoft KB Archive/249304

= WD2000: 1's or 0's Appear at the End of Table Rows =

Article ID: 249304

Article Last Modified on 11/4/2002

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q249304



SYMPTOMS
Table rows may have the numeral 1 or a zero (0) to the right of them, and you cannot select or delete these numbers.

For example, a Word table may appear similar to the following.

++---+---+ ++---+---+ ++---+---+ ++---+---+
 * Sample Text       | Sample Text       | Sample Text       |1
 * Sample Text       | Sample Text       | Sample Text       |1
 * Sample Text       | Sample Text       | Sample Text       |1



CAUSE
This problem may occur when you use Microsoft Word 2000 to open a Microsoft Word 6.0 for Windows document or a Microsoft Word for Windows 95 document that was edited in Microsoft Word 97 for Windows.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain Microsoft Office 2000 Service Release 1/1a (SR-1/SR-1a).

To obtain SR-1/SR-1a, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

245025 OFF2000: How to Obtain and Install Microsoft Office 2000 Service Release 1/1a (SR-1/SR-1a)

To temporarily work around this problem, copy everything except the last paragraph mark to a new document. To do this, follow these steps:
 * 1) Open the document exhibiting the behavior listed in the "Symptoms" section of this article.
 * 2) To select everything except the last paragraph mark in the document, press CTRL+END to move the insertion point to the end of the document. Then press CTRL+SHIFT+HOME to select everything from the end of the document to the start of the document.
 * 3) On the Edit menu, click Copy.
 * 4) Create a new Word document. To do this, click New on the File menu. Then click Blank Document and click OK.
 * 5) In the new blank document, click Paste on the Edit menu.
 * 6) On the File menu, click Save. Save your new Word document with a new file name and click OK.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1/SR-1a.

Additional query words: one ones 0s zeros

Keywords: kbbug kbfix KB249304

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