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Can you figure this out?
Strictly speaking, the Positioning button will be active for tables whose
"Text wrapping" (on the Table tab of the Table Properties dialog box) is set to "Around"; this is exactly what is accomplished by dragging the table. No, unfortunately you cannot change the defaults to include this formatting. This applies even if you are using a Word version that supports table styles, since Positioning options cannot be added to a table style (they are greyed out in Modify Style, Format, Table Properties). What you can do is create an "example table" with the desired settings and then make an AutoText entry which can be inserted whenever you want this formatting. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "jim" wrote in message .. . That makes thing MUCH easier! But, you should also know that the Positioning button is not enabled until you have dragged a table. Before dragging a table the Positioning button is disabled - which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Thanks Stefan! BTW, is there a way to make this the default setting for Word? jim "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... For each table, try this: Right-click the table, and choose Table Properties from the context menu. In the Table Properties dialog box, click the Table tab. Click Positioning. Clear "Move with text" and "Allow overlap" and click OK. Click OK to close the Table Properties dialog. Now you should be able to drag the tables as you wish. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "jim" wrote in message .. . I'm sorry but when I completely recretaed the document I overwrote the old name with the new document. However, I was able to recreate a document with some of the same strange behavior and you can download it from http://www.mediafire.com/?0zmf4jfn9ff . There are 3 tables on the document. Try moving the bottommost table as close as possible to the middle table (without touching it) and it should jump to the top portion of the page and be a real pain to drag back below the other tables. I can post a video of it if you like. jim "Bob Buckland ?:-)" 75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com wrote in message ... Hi Jim, As you were able to post the video, do you have a link you can create to the problem document? As Beth mentions, some of the details aren't readily visible as to the document/table structure. FWIW, of the three news/discussion groups listed in your message neither microsoft.public.word or microsoft.public.word.general are carried on Microsoft's news server, news://msnews.microsoft.com ============ "jim" wrote in message . .. I right clicked on each table and removed text wrapping from the cell attributes (the only place that I saw it), but the problem continues. I don't think I put it in the video, but the tables also snap to the edges of the page when you get within some arbitrary distance, and I cannot find any settings to stop that behavior either. Honestly, if I could find some really good form creation software I'd get it and never, ever try this again with Word. jim -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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Can you figure this out?
As Stefan noted, the Positioning options are only available for floating
tables. I think you would be much happier if you used inline tables in which each table is anchored to its own paragraph mark. In your sample document they are all anchored to the same paragraph mark, which is what I suspected initially. To view what I'm referring to, on the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click the Show/Hide (¶) button and note the single paragraph mark below the second table and off to the right. For inline tables, when you insert your tables you need to press Enter below the table before inserting another one. That way they will each have their own "anchor point". Right now they are all sharing the same one which is why they are essentially 'fighting' over their current positions -- as far as your tables are concerned, there is no clear indication for which one is belongs at the top. You'll also need to refrain from dragging the tables which is what converts them from inline to floating. To move them use cut/paste instead. Also, for future reference, sample files are better (and faster) for us than videos. Typically we can "see" what is happening based on your description but in order to determine why it's happening we need to be able to view the actual document. :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs "jim" wrote in message .. . That makes thing MUCH easier! But, you should also know that the Positioning button is not enabled until you have dragged a table. Before dragging a table the Positioning button is disabled - which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Thanks Stefan! BTW, is there a way to make this the default setting for Word? jim "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... For each table, try this: Right-click the table, and choose Table Properties from the context menu. In the Table Properties dialog box, click the Table tab. Click Positioning. Clear "Move with text" and "Allow overlap" and click OK. Click OK to close the Table Properties dialog. Now you should be able to drag the tables as you wish. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "jim" wrote in message .. . I'm sorry but when I completely recretaed the document I overwrote the old name with the new document. However, I was able to recreate a document with some of the same strange behavior and you can download it from http://www.mediafire.com/?0zmf4jfn9ff . There are 3 tables on the document. Try moving the bottommost table as close as possible to the middle table (without touching it) and it should jump to the top portion of the page and be a real pain to drag back below the other tables. I can post a video of it if you like. jim "Bob Buckland ?:-)" 75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com wrote in message ... Hi Jim, As you were able to post the video, do you have a link you can create to the problem document? As Beth mentions, some of the details aren't readily visible as to the document/table structure. FWIW, of the three news/discussion groups listed in your message neither microsoft.public.word or microsoft.public.word.general are carried on Microsoft's news server, news://msnews.microsoft.com ============ "jim" wrote in message . .. I right clicked on each table and removed text wrapping from the cell attributes (the only place that I saw it), but the problem continues. I don't think I put it in the video, but the tables also snap to the edges of the page when you get within some arbitrary distance, and I cannot find any settings to stop that behavior either. Honestly, if I could find some really good form creation software I'd get it and never, ever try this again with Word. jim -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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Can you figure this out?
Great tip! I did just that...now I can simply add the single cell table and
adjust it as needed. Thanks again! jim "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... Strictly speaking, the Positioning button will be active for tables whose "Text wrapping" (on the Table tab of the Table Properties dialog box) is set to "Around"; this is exactly what is accomplished by dragging the table. No, unfortunately you cannot change the defaults to include this formatting. This applies even if you are using a Word version that supports table styles, since Positioning options cannot be added to a table style (they are greyed out in Modify Style, Format, Table Properties). What you can do is create an "example table" with the desired settings and then make an AutoText entry which can be inserted whenever you want this formatting. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "jim" wrote in message .. . That makes thing MUCH easier! But, you should also know that the Positioning button is not enabled until you have dragged a table. Before dragging a table the Positioning button is disabled - which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Thanks Stefan! BTW, is there a way to make this the default setting for Word? jim "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... For each table, try this: Right-click the table, and choose Table Properties from the context menu. In the Table Properties dialog box, click the Table tab. Click Positioning. Clear "Move with text" and "Allow overlap" and click OK. Click OK to close the Table Properties dialog. Now you should be able to drag the tables as you wish. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "jim" wrote in message .. . I'm sorry but when I completely recretaed the document I overwrote the old name with the new document. However, I was able to recreate a document with some of the same strange behavior and you can download it from http://www.mediafire.com/?0zmf4jfn9ff . There are 3 tables on the document. Try moving the bottommost table as close as possible to the middle table (without touching it) and it should jump to the top portion of the page and be a real pain to drag back below the other tables. I can post a video of it if you like. jim "Bob Buckland ?:-)" 75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com wrote in message ... Hi Jim, As you were able to post the video, do you have a link you can create to the problem document? As Beth mentions, some of the details aren't readily visible as to the document/table structure. FWIW, of the three news/discussion groups listed in your message neither microsoft.public.word or microsoft.public.word.general are carried on Microsoft's news server, news://msnews.microsoft.com ============ "jim" wrote in message . .. I right clicked on each table and removed text wrapping from the cell attributes (the only place that I saw it), but the problem continues. I don't think I put it in the video, but the tables also snap to the edges of the page when you get within some arbitrary distance, and I cannot find any settings to stop that behavior either. Honestly, if I could find some really good form creation software I'd get it and never, ever try this again with Word. jim -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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Can you figure this out?
You are welcome.
(For more on wrapped tables, see Beth's reply.) -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "jim" wrote in message ... Great tip! I did just that...now I can simply add the single cell table and adjust it as needed. Thanks again! jim "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... Strictly speaking, the Positioning button will be active for tables whose "Text wrapping" (on the Table tab of the Table Properties dialog box) is set to "Around"; this is exactly what is accomplished by dragging the table. No, unfortunately you cannot change the defaults to include this formatting. This applies even if you are using a Word version that supports table styles, since Positioning options cannot be added to a table style (they are greyed out in Modify Style, Format, Table Properties). What you can do is create an "example table" with the desired settings and then make an AutoText entry which can be inserted whenever you want this formatting. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "jim" wrote in message .. . That makes thing MUCH easier! But, you should also know that the Positioning button is not enabled until you have dragged a table. Before dragging a table the Positioning button is disabled - which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Thanks Stefan! BTW, is there a way to make this the default setting for Word? jim "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... For each table, try this: Right-click the table, and choose Table Properties from the context menu. In the Table Properties dialog box, click the Table tab. Click Positioning. Clear "Move with text" and "Allow overlap" and click OK. Click OK to close the Table Properties dialog. Now you should be able to drag the tables as you wish. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "jim" wrote in message .. . I'm sorry but when I completely recretaed the document I overwrote the old name with the new document. However, I was able to recreate a document with some of the same strange behavior and you can download it from http://www.mediafire.com/?0zmf4jfn9ff . There are 3 tables on the document. Try moving the bottommost table as close as possible to the middle table (without touching it) and it should jump to the top portion of the page and be a real pain to drag back below the other tables. I can post a video of it if you like. jim "Bob Buckland ?:-)" 75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com wrote in message ... Hi Jim, As you were able to post the video, do you have a link you can create to the problem document? As Beth mentions, some of the details aren't readily visible as to the document/table structure. FWIW, of the three news/discussion groups listed in your message neither microsoft.public.word or microsoft.public.word.general are carried on Microsoft's news server, news://msnews.microsoft.com ============ "jim" wrote in message . .. I right clicked on each table and removed text wrapping from the cell attributes (the only place that I saw it), but the problem continues. I don't think I put it in the video, but the tables also snap to the edges of the page when you get within some arbitrary distance, and I cannot find any settings to stop that behavior either. Honestly, if I could find some really good form creation software I'd get it and never, ever try this again with Word. jim -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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Can you figure this out?
It would definitely help if you could display the *anchor* of a floating
table (as you can for floating objects). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Beth Melton" wrote in message ... As Stefan noted, the Positioning options are only available for floating tables. I think you would be much happier if you used inline tables in which each table is anchored to its own paragraph mark. In your sample document they are all anchored to the same paragraph mark, which is what I suspected initially. To view what I'm referring to, on the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click the Show/Hide (¶) button and note the single paragraph mark below the second table and off to the right. For inline tables, when you insert your tables you need to press Enter below the table before inserting another one. That way they will each have their own "anchor point". Right now they are all sharing the same one which is why they are essentially 'fighting' over their current positions -- as far as your tables are concerned, there is no clear indication for which one is belongs at the top. You'll also need to refrain from dragging the tables which is what converts them from inline to floating. To move them use cut/paste instead. Also, for future reference, sample files are better (and faster) for us than videos. Typically we can "see" what is happening based on your description but in order to determine why it's happening we need to be able to view the actual document. :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs "jim" wrote in message .. . That makes thing MUCH easier! But, you should also know that the Positioning button is not enabled until you have dragged a table. Before dragging a table the Positioning button is disabled - which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Thanks Stefan! BTW, is there a way to make this the default setting for Word? jim "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... For each table, try this: Right-click the table, and choose Table Properties from the context menu. In the Table Properties dialog box, click the Table tab. Click Positioning. Clear "Move with text" and "Allow overlap" and click OK. Click OK to close the Table Properties dialog. Now you should be able to drag the tables as you wish. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "jim" wrote in message .. . I'm sorry but when I completely recretaed the document I overwrote the old name with the new document. However, I was able to recreate a document with some of the same strange behavior and you can download it from http://www.mediafire.com/?0zmf4jfn9ff . There are 3 tables on the document. Try moving the bottommost table as close as possible to the middle table (without touching it) and it should jump to the top portion of the page and be a real pain to drag back below the other tables. I can post a video of it if you like. jim "Bob Buckland ?:-)" 75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com wrote in message ... Hi Jim, As you were able to post the video, do you have a link you can create to the problem document? As Beth mentions, some of the details aren't readily visible as to the document/table structure. FWIW, of the three news/discussion groups listed in your message neither microsoft.public.word or microsoft.public.word.general are carried on Microsoft's news server, news://msnews.microsoft.com ============ "jim" wrote in message . .. I right clicked on each table and removed text wrapping from the cell attributes (the only place that I saw it), but the problem continues. I don't think I put it in the video, but the tables also snap to the edges of the page when you get within some arbitrary distance, and I cannot find any settings to stop that behavior either. Honestly, if I could find some really good form creation software I'd get it and never, ever try this again with Word. jim -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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Can you figure this out?
Agreed!!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... It would definitely help if you could display the *anchor* of a floating table (as you can for floating objects). |
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