Microsoft KB Archive/79789

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SYMPTOMS
In Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, when a table is pasted directly to the right of a table, the pasted table loses its border formatting. Normally, Word preserves the border formatting of a pasted table, so this result may be unexpected. For example, suppose you had two separate bordered tables in your document as follows:

---  |Red       |Blue      | |-|  |Yellow    |Green     | ---

---  |Apple     |Pear      | |-|  |Banana    |Grape     | --- If you select the second table, copy it, and then paste it to the right of the first table, the tables will join, forming a larger, four-column table. In this example, the cells containing the names of colors (from the first table) will retain their border formatting as expected. The cells containing the names of fruits (from the second table) will not retain their border formatting. Note: To paste the second table to the right of the first table, first position the cursor to the right of the first table's border, but to the left of the end-of-cell mark. Positioning the cursor at the top row results in an even four-cell-by-four-cell table. Positioning the cursor to the right of the bottom row results in an uneven table.

CAUSE
This behavior occurs by design because of the way Word keeps track of table borders. Word stores the border information with the table in such a way that Word cannot preserve the information when the table is pasted to the right of another table.

MORE INFORMATION
For more information on working with table borders in Word, see pages 372-373 in the &quot;Reference to Microsoft Word&quot; version 4.0 manual or see pages 367-369 in the &quot;Microsoft Word User's Guide&quot; version 5.0 manual.
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Last reviewed: November 17, 1997

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