Lines of text disappearing in Word Tables

[ange...@officeformac.com]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Hi,
I'm having a weird issue with text within tables in my word document. For some reason, if I delete the last row of a table that I'm working on, the previous row's text disappears. What's even more strange is that the first line of text disappears if there are two lines of text in the row, and the second row is fine.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[John McGhie]

Sorry, not enough detail to answer.

1) Select the entire row and choose Edit>Clear>Clear Formatting.

Now what happens?

2) Select the entire table and choose Table>Convert>Table to Text.

Then, without moving the selection, Table>Convert>Text to Table.

That re-creates the table. How is it now?

I suspect you have nested rows and columns in the table so that whenever you
touch a cell, it hits rows you were not expecting.

Cheers

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[johnsurdu]

I tried both of the solutions you suggested. In both cases, the problem eventually reappeared. While my tables are long, they are not complicated. For me this problem was only occuring in the last row of a table or the last row of a table on a page for those tables that cross page boundaries. On many of the tables, I could make the problem go away by adding a blank last row with no borders, no fill, and a font size of 4. This has little impact on the look of the final document. This does not work, however, for those tables that are too large to fit on a single page.

Any other suggestions?

Buck Surdu

John McGhie wrote:

Sorry, not enough detail to answer.

23-Feb-10

Sorry, not enough detail to answer.

1) Select the entire row and choose Edit>Clear>Clear Formatting.

Now what happens?

2) Select the entire table and choose Table>Convert>Table to Text.

Then, without moving the selection, Table>Convert>Text to Table.

That re-creates the table. How is it now?

I suspect you have nested rows and columns in the table so that whenever you
touch a cell, it hits rows you were not expecting.

Cheers

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[John McGhie]

Hi Buck:

Of the 20 versions of Word we support, which one are you using? :-)

I need your version and update numbers for Word and the OS so I can get on
the right page here.

I suspect this is going to turn out to be a table style issue.

Cheers

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[gl...@officeformac.com]

I'm having the exact same problem over multiple documents with a variety of styles, fonts, and never any nested tables. Some were originally created in Word 2008, and then revised on a PC version of Word, and some were originally created on the PC version, but so far I've only seen it AFTER the document has been saved using the PC version.

The consistent symptom is that the last row of the table on a page is missing most of the text (there are always a few words of text remaining). if I add a row beneath the problem row, the text reappears. It doesn't appear to be a style problem. I can clear all formatting and the problem continues. Saving as .doc vs. .docx doesn't make a difference.

My version is Word 2008 12.2.4.
The PC version is Word 2007 but I don't have the detail update info.

[John McGhie]

Check that PC Word is fully up-to-date.

They had a bug that used to cause this. It was cured with one of their
updates.

Cheers

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[mitja....@gmail.com]

The same problem still occurs in Word for Mac version 2011.
I have the last update installed (ver. 14.3.2).
Any solution for this issue?

Operation system is Mac OS X Snow Leopard, 10.6.8.

Regards,
Mitja

[tania]

I have this problem too. I've taken to doing fixes in Open Office, but Word still has problems with displaying the last line of a table or the last line in a table on a page (for long tables). If I copy and paste the text from the cell (and by editing it in another program), I know the text is still there, it just doesn't display.

Word for Mac 2011, version 14.3.5 (130515).

[ven...@gmail.com]

I face the same problem.

Using:
Microsoft Word for Mac 2011 Version 14.3.8 from 13.09.2013
on Mac OSX 10.9

[ven...@gmail.com]

I've found a solution to this:

Open the table properties and select the "table" tab.
Under "Text wrapping" the option "None" was selected. Changed it to "Around" and the text rows that was previously missing re-appeared.

[hpot...@gmail.com]

That solution works perfectly...unless you have footnotes in the table text. If you do, you completely lose the footnotes. I need a solution that retains the footnotes (and any other formatting).

[nicholas...@gmail.com]

I found a solution too: Align cells top left worked for me.

They were aligned centre and kept disappearing.

give it a whiel

[hayden...@gmail.com]

Lifesaver Nicholas! What a dumb problem.

[kimros...@gmail.com]

I was having a similar situation in Word for Mac 2011 in which the last line of some table cells showed, but the rest of the text in that cell disappeared (the text showed in PDFs and printouts, so I knew the text was still there). Clicking the Gridlines icon on the Table Layout tab solved the problem.

[laurenc...@gmail.com]

Put your cursor in the cell that is having the problem. Click table properties, select cell, align top. The problem goes away.

[laura.p...@gmail.com]

I know this is an old post but you just saved me a ton of frustration. Thanks so much for posting this!

[jdawi...@gmail.com]

Same problem here, in Mavericks and since upgrading to 10.10 Yosemite, with Word for Ma 2011 Version 14.4.3 (140616).

My problem is more intricate. One cell has a pale-grey background, vertically centred, but the missing line doesn't have the background. Prints fine to PDF. Format to align top, and the missing grey background appears, but not the text.

But in bottom-row cells without the shading, format to align top fixes the text.

All very fiddly.

[clanc...@gmail.com]

this worked! Thank you!!!!!

[dasc...@gene.com]

thank you thank you, you just saved me so much frustration, because this is still an issue!

[bonga...@googlemail.com]

Thanks, really appreciate this

[saqu...@gmail.com]

Halleluja! Thank you!

[kral...@gmail.com]

You saved me tons of frustration.
I used the Table Properties >> "Around" method.
Thank you loads!

[jeeni...@gmail.com]

> Put your cursor in the cell that is having the problem. Click table properties, select cell, align top. The problem goes away.

Thanks Laurence! This was frustrating - your recommendation was the only one to solve it for me!

[wil...@knowmad.com]

On Tuesday, September 16, 2014 at 12:05:43 PM UTC-4, kimros...@gmail.com wrote:
> I was having a similar situation in Word for Mac 2011 in which the last line of some table cells showed, but the rest of the text in that cell disappeared (the text showed in PDFs and printouts, so I knew the text was still there). Clicking the Gridlines icon on the Table Layout tab solved the problem.

Turning off Gridlines did the job for me. Thanks for the simple solution!

[meiz...@gmail.com]

This also worked for me! I was having so much trouble with the same problem.

[jacl...@gmail.com]

Omg this has been plaguing me! Such a simple fix. Thank you so, so much!

[dnel...@gmail.com]

Perfect solution. Thanks. Can't believe this bug is still out there!

[leonora.da...@gmail.com]

Turning off gridlines worked for me too. Thanks so much. Was getting really frustrated!

So simple.

[lan...@gmail.com]

Thank you!

[asthmalab]

On Tuesday, September 16, 2014 at 6:05:43 PM UTC+2, kimros...@gmail.com wrote:
> I was having a similar situation in Word for Mac 2011 in which the last line of some table cells showed, but the rest of the text in that cell disappeared (the text showed in PDFs and printouts, so I knew the text was still there). Clicking the Gridlines icon on the Table Layout tab solved the problem.

I was having a similar situation in Word for Mac 2011 in which the last line of some table cells showed, but the rest of the text in that cell disappeared (the text showed in PDFs and printouts, so I knew the text was still there). Clicking the Gridlines icon on the Table Layout tab solved the problem.

Just saw this and it saved me! It solved a problem that I've been struggling with for ages. Thank you so much for the help!

[jpva...@me.com]

On Tuesday, September 16, 2014 at 11:05:43 AM UTC-5, kimros...@gmail.com wrote:
> I was having a similar situation in Word for Mac 2011 in which the last line of some table cells showed, but the rest of the text in that cell disappeared (the text showed in PDFs and printouts, so I knew the text was still there). Clicking the Gridlines icon on the Table Layout tab solved the problem.

I currently have Word for Mac 2011, under OS X El Capitan (10.11.4) (had this problem under earlier OS and Word for Mac versions too) - deselecting the Gridlines button (i.e., hiding the gridlines) seems to resolve this problem in most instances. I still have display issues with rotated text (in a merged-cell column), but the mysterious disappearing text in regular rows has reappeared. Thanks!

[alanna...@gmail.com]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! You just saved the life of my PhD Thesis :D:D:D:D

[v.ho...@gmail.com]

Thank you so much :) You just saved me too !!!! So happy

[nan.w...@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, September 16, 2014 at 6:05:43 PM UTC+2, kimros...@gmail.com wrote:

> I was having a similar situation in Word for Mac 2011 in which the last line of some table cells showed, but the rest of the text in that cell disappeared (the text showed in PDFs and printouts, so I knew the text was still there). Clicking the Gridlines icon on the Table Layout tab solved the problem.

Thank you SO MUCH!! Gridlines it is.

[step...@virigroup.com]

On Monday, December 9, 2013 at 6:03:30 AM UTC-8, ven...@gmail.com wrote:

This worked great! I had this problem with cells aligned top left. Text wrapping to around fixed it. How on earth did you ever figure that one out? THANK YOU!

[anthony....@gmail.com]

I think what we really want is in the table properties, row tab, set "Allow row to break accross pages" . I was seeing the disappearing problem when my row became to large for a single page.

[dan....@gmail.com]

hell yes! thank you nicholas!

[chr...@vt.edu]

On Tuesday, September 16, 2014 at 12:05:43 PM UTC-4, kimros...@gmail.com wrote:

> I was having a similar situation in Word for Mac 2011 in which the last line of some table cells showed, but the rest of the text in that cell disappeared (the text showed in PDFs and printouts, so I knew the text was still there). Clicking the Gridlines icon on the Table Layout tab solved the problem.

Woohoo, thanks Kimros!!!! This worked like a charm!