On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Maurice Howe <maur...@stny.rr.com> wrote:
> When I build a DOC table using A00, it looks fine while I'm working on > it, but if I save it and then retrieve it, it's a total mess (see attached) > and cannot be edited. It can't be opened with MS Office, or anything > useful. Any ideas? > As for save and retrieve, if retrieving in AOO after building in AOO, I couldn't say. I haven't encountered that problem. My questions for you would be: - is it one particular file or every file that has a table in it? - is it any table or only tables that use a particular feature, eg, cell borders, bullets within cells, cell formulas If MS Office won't open the file my first impulse would be to forget about it until the problem with AOO opening the file is resolved. Once the .doc file can be built, saved and opened again in AOO then try opening with Word. I expect it will open once AOO is also able to open it. fyi - I built a simple test table in AOO 4.0.0 with four rows and four columns, put values in each cell, autoformated the table using the default autoformat style and saved it as an MS Word 97/2000/XP (.doc) file. Then opened it in MS Word 2003. It opened with no problem. In Word I added another table with the same number of rows and columns, applied one of Word's auto formats and saved the file again. Then went back to AOO and it opened no problem. My version of Word is old (haven't used it routinely for quite a few years now so haven't gone to the later versions). My lack of problems makes me think you're encountering a problem with one of the following - the particular file you're working with - the MS Word version the file is being saved as - a feature used in the table design Each issue must be troubleshot to try and come to a solution.
