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Newest Office365 word update damages tables
In newest Office365 Word table (one column) in table (many columns) with fixed width does not work. It works as "Adjust by content" even if I enforce fixed width. If document was correct, and you open with a new Word and save it - document becomes damaged.
If you open with old word - it opens and saves as expected. Problem is that all Office365 became updated this week, and we can not fid how to revert to old version.
This is critical issue - all words templates becomes damaged after saving. Is there any workaround to fix this issue?
mangru If you upload such a document we will investigate the issue.
Thank you, Doug_Robbins_Word_MVP
If you open with current Word - both documents opens incorrectly. If you open with older word - first one opens as supposed - has fixed table width (in internal table), second document is damaged.
- This one is good (worked with older MS Office): Kainynas (nuolaidos) {Customer_Organization}.docx
- This one is damaged (saved with current MS Office): Kainynas (nuolaidos) {Customer_Organization}_damaged.docx
BTW, if you open with online Word, it opens correctly. It just has too little table tools/merge field tools to be able to fix these templates.
mangru This is how the Kainynas (nuolaidos) {Customer_Organization}.docx opens in Word in Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise Version 2409(Build 18025.20160 Click-to-Run) Current Channel
The other document uses a 9pt font in the first table rather than 11pt and that table contains on extra empty cell on the right.
I do not think those changes occurred by the document being opened in the later version.
I have a similar issue. My original Word documents had the right border of the nested table lining up with the right border of the outer table. However with the new Word update, the right border of the nested table is automatically indented to the left. I have tried the below methods to make the border of the nested table flush with the outer table.
- 'Table Layout' -> 'Autofit' -> 'Fixed Column Width' -> setting 'Column width'
- 'Table Properties' -> 'Cell' -> 'Options' -> uncheck 'Cell margins: Same as whole table'
- 'Table Properties' -> 'Column' -> set preferred width
None of the above methods worked as the right border of the inner table will temporarily line up but then will snap back to its original indentation. I have also tried a quick repair of the application which didn't work.
I should also mention this issue only arose recently when I edited my document on my Macbook over the past week and then reopened the document today on my PC. Now every document I open on PC has this issue.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I have many years of documents formatted like this and all have the same issue with text/table contents being cut off by the border.
Right borders of nested tables don't line up with right border of outer tablesText is cut offI have a similar issue. I want to export a Jasper report with a simple table to Microsoft Word. I encountered a formatting issue with the table starting from MS Word version 2409, while in earlier versions, the layout appears correct. I tried different Jasper versions (6.20.1, 6.23.1, and 7.0.1), but the issue persists.
Here are the details:
In Jaspersoft Studio, the table displays correctly in the preview.
When I export the table to Word (.docx) and open it in a Word version prior to 2409, the layout matches the preview in Jaspersoft Studio.However, in Word version 2409, the result changes significantly: the column widths are altered, making the report less readable.
Any help to resolve this issue would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
- I have a temporary solution - I installed MS Office 2010 on another computer. It works as expected - tables are not damaged.
Newest office still has that issue - I hope it will be fixed soon. I do not think those changes occurred by the document being opened in the later version.
But hey are - client tried to modify the document, and got exactly same results. I tried creating from new - and also same result - table in table gets damaged. It is impossible to create fixed width cells in table, which is in another tables cell anymore.
I have also been having this issue on multiple docs we use for docgen. versions from prior to late october seem to be fine, but any time we open any of them to make changes a handful of nested tables have their columns shifted with no way to fix them. Any attempt to drag or manually enter column widths momentarily changes them before snapping back to how they were (or something worse) on their own. Fixed column width has been confirmed enabled on all of them as well.
I am having this issue as well. Is there a way to report this to Microsoft directly?
