pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby) (04/25/91)
Here's an odd problem I discovered recently in Word 4.00D (actually, Word 4.00x): Open a new Document. Insert six carriage-returns (see below--the number is irrelevant). After the 3rd carriage-return, add a few lines of tab-delimited text. Select the lines just entered and Insert Table (tab-delimited). Now select the three carriage-returns above the table. Press the Return key (to replace the 3 CRs with just 1). At this point, the three carriage returns BEFORE the table go away, and a carriage return is ADDED to the first cell of the table! It doesn't matter how many CR's you select of those before the table; as long as you _do_ select the CR that is just before the table. When you press the Return key, the selected CRs will be deleted, and a CR will be added to the the first cell in the table. Odd behavior, it seems to me. Any ideas? Microsoft? Paul p.s. On a related note, has anyone found an easy way to add a carriage return before a table which is the FIRST item in a document? Is there a way to do it without cutting the whole table, hitting Return a few times, and then pasting the table back in? -- .--------------------------------------------------------------------. | Paul Jacoby, 3M Company | Parachuting? Why jump out of a | | ** pejacoby@3m.com ** | perfectly good airplane? | `--------------------------------------------------------------------'
dana@are.berkeley.edu (Dana E. Keil) (04/26/91)
pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby) writes: > p.s. On a related note, has anyone found an easy way to add a > carriage return before a table which is the FIRST item in a > document? Is there a way to do it without cutting the whole table, > hitting Return a few times, and then pasting the table back in? There actually is a specific command to do just that (I've added it to my menu in Word since I could never remember the key sequence assigned to it, oh, it's command-option spacebar). When you go to the "Commands..." item in the Edit menu you get the list of all possible commands, scroll down the list to the item named "Insert <paragraph sign> Above Row," you can then find out what key you have currently assigned to that command and/or assign a new key command to it and/or put it on a menu. This command also works to split a table into two pieces by putting a non-table new line above any current row in a table. -- Dana E. Keil Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics University of California, Berkeley dana@are.berkeley.edu
guelzow@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Andreas J. Guelzow) (04/26/91)
In article <1991Apr24.210104.11197@mmm.serc.3m.com> pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby) writes: >Here's an odd problem I discovered recently in Word 4.00D (actually, >Word 4.00x): > >It doesn't matter how many CR's you select of those before the table; >as long as you _do_ select the CR that is just before the table. >When you press the Return key, the selected CRs will be deleted, and a >CR will be added to the the first cell in the table. > >Odd behavior, it seems to me. Any ideas? Microsoft? > It doesn't sound odd to me: When you hit the return key the programme will first delete the CRs, then break: note that the cursor is now in front of the table, i.e. in the first cell add a CR which ends up in the first cell. > Paul > > p.s. On a related note, has anyone found an easy way to add a > carriage return before a table which is the FIRST item in a > document? Is there a way to do it without cutting the whole table, > hitting Return a few times, and then pasting the table back in? > MS Word has a command that is called something like: insert return before current row. You can access it through "Commands" or add it to your menu. >-- >.--------------------------------------------------------------------. >| Paul Jacoby, 3M Company | Parachuting? Why jump out of a | >| ** pejacoby@3m.com ** | perfectly good airplane? | >`--------------------------------------------------------------------' Andreas J. Guelzow <guelzow@ccu.umanitoba.ca>