Microsoft KB Archive/249304

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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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