Microsoft KB Archive/273982

= Height of blank rows differs between Internet Explorer and Word 2002 or Word 2003 =

Article ID: 273982

Article Last Modified on 1/29/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office Word 2003
 * Microsoft Word 2002 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q273982



For a Microsoft Word 2000 version of this article, see 224626.



SYMPTOMS
When you use Microsoft Internet Explorer to open a Web page that contains a table with a blank row between the header row and the first data row, and then you open the same file in Microsoft Word 2002 or in Microsoft Office Word 2003, the height of the blank row between the header row and the first data row differs in the two programs.

For example, when you open your Web page in Microsoft Internet Explorer, your Web page may look similar to the following:

However, when you open the same Web page in Microsoft Word, the height of the blank row is much taller than in Microsoft Internet Explorer, as in the following example:



CAUSE
This behavior is by design in Microsoft Word. Empty (blank) table cells (rows) in a table contained on a Web page are displayed as the height of the format or paragraph format applied to the end-of-cell mark.



WORKAROUND
To work around this behavior, delete the blank row of the table on your Web page. To do this, follow these steps:
 * 1) Start Microsoft Word.
 * 2) On the File menu, click Open.
 * 3) In Word 2002, click to select Web Pages (*.htm;*.html) in the Files of type box.

In Word 2003, click to select All Web Pages in the Files of type box.
 * 1) Browse to select your Web page, and then click Open.
 * 2) Click anywhere in the blank row.
 * 3) On the Table menu, point to Delete, and then click Rows.

Additional query words: prb WD2002 wd2003

Keywords: kbpending kbprb KB273982

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