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2003 -- Are *very* large tables still an issue
We have documents that are 1 long table ranging from 3 to 5 columns but may
be 300+ rows long and a 20-30 pages. In previous version of Word I've delete with these documents became corrupted easily as it had to reformat 20 pages of table rows. So the resolution was to get people to put these in Excel. At other companies not a problem. At the place I'm at now, the issue is not only the size of the documents but the size of the cell. Some will have 2000+ (and few quite abit more) characters and Excel's print and display limit is around 1000 even though the cell will hold 32,000. We've just upgraded to Ofc 2003 and I'm wondering if large tables are still an issue. Or if someone has a piece of software they can recommend. |
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2003 -- Are *very* large tables still an issue
Hi Lori,
Still an issue. So break up your tables into smaller tables (and rows into smaller rows) as much as possible. If you format the paragraph mark between tables as hidden, you can have two tables that look like one. You loose functionality that way though. Say, you can no longer select columns. And some people don't like hidden paragraph marks because they think that they make document corruption more likely (... haven't encountered that myself). Another thing that may help a bit is to set the tables to a fixed width (Table AutoFit). With a macro, you could do that for all tables quickly. And while you're at it, the macro could format the tables the way you like (set column widths, borders, ...). Regards, Klaus "Lori" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... We have documents that are 1 long table ranging from 3 to 5 columns but may be 300+ rows long and a 20-30 pages. In previous version of Word I've delete with these documents became corrupted easily as it had to reformat 20 pages of table rows. So the resolution was to get people to put these in Excel. At other companies not a problem. At the place I'm at now, the issue is not only the size of the documents but the size of the cell. Some will have 2000+ (and few quite abit more) characters and Excel's print and display limit is around 1000 even though the cell will hold 32,000. We've just upgraded to Ofc 2003 and I'm wondering if large tables are still an issue. Or if someone has a piece of software they can recommend. |
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