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Doug Stalter
Oct 20, 2017Brass Contributor
Formatting of Tables in modern pages
I recently noticed that when I add a table to a modern page (using the Text web part and paste from Word) the formatting of the columns doesn't automatically wrap the text any longer. The column widt...
SusanHanley
Oct 21, 2017MVP
I seem to always have formatting issues when I try to paste tables on modern pages. Simple tables seem to work OK, but nothing fancy - so I try to avoid them. At Ignite, Microsoft showed an awesome preview of a really great rich text editor coming to modern pages that includes all the table formatting that we used to have in Classic. I'm not sure when that will land, but we've been trying to find other ways to present information that might have needed a table until then. For example, in some cases we create the "table" in PowerPoint and display the single slide on the page. It is not a perfect answer, but it gives you a lot more control over the formatting of the information.
kath patterson
Oct 23, 2017Iron Contributor
pasting from the very bloated Word often transfers a lot of junk that confuses browser rendering so I am not surprised. better to go via excel which gets rid of some of the irrelevant formatting and just focuses on the table data.