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@Dan C Sure! Find them attached. I show there the original look of the table first, then you can see the broken result after connecting the the text boxes as threads. Screen Recording 2022-08-31 at 11.38.22.mov

Update: Currently I'm working with the recovered AP file, my findings are the following: the resize issue not just stayed with us, but it repeats itself when I attach two text flows, the table cell height changes even if I reseized them back once before. The problem is most probably cuased by the content of the tables which I pasted from Pages (this was the only workaraound where I was able to keep the table's content w/o falling apart). So I recreated one of the tables manually in one of the the problematic threads and when I connected two threads again only those tables fell apart which were not recreated (included the copy-pasted text from Pages), the newly, manually created table with the same style and parameters kept being the same. So my take away until the bug is resolved: copy-pasting from Pages is a big no-no. Do you have any recommandations how to copy paste table content from any kind of tool/notetaker which won't bring in this bug? This would make me a lot of work, writing all the tables manually.

@Dan Cthanks for jumping in, I really appreciate! 🙏 File uploaded! @thomaso I will get back with your proposed solutions—as I also really appreciate the kind help of the community. I hope I can investigate this properly and give some hints on what could went wrong in my case!

Thanks for the quick reply! Unfortunately I'm not able to upload the file 1. it's a sensitive content 2. Also I can't even open it, after opening it 5-6 times and was trying to fix the issue at one point the file stopped opening and to AP crashed immediately w/o any notice. Yes it's in the text flow, but it's not about the capability of flowing table content, but it might be the root cause of the bug... The resize bug appeared in multiple cases when I created a new Text Flow by connecting two Text Frames which included Tables. Why I'm sure it is a bug, because I was not able to Undo it, up until I was able to open the file the only way to "undo" is to close the file and open a previous version/state. Yes, tables are pinned and I get used to that, having them jumping from one page to another depending on the pin's placement. So that's fine. Yes, I'm using the latest AP version. No, I don't have rotated tables either. What I suspect as a trigger is: pinning + creating new text flow (+ something unexpected with the format, see below) @thomaso do you suspect copy-pasting content from another file might cause the issue? Although I pasted them from Pages, I got rid off all the text styles long ago. Also, I gave custom height to each of the rows when made the stylistic changes.

After chaining two text boxes into one thread on two separate pages, all the tables that were included in the thread were resized vertically, I was not able to undo the resize Started to edit them manually to get the originaly height of the tables In some cases when I touched the bounding box of the tables Publisher crashed so I tried to execute actions in different order, after the 5-6th attempt the file stopped opening, crashed Publisher immediately, so can't open the file at all. Now I hope I have an earlier version somewhere... Tables' documentation and behaviour are just tricky enough, but all the bugs around are hijacking to work effectively and can't really make this tool good enough for professional work unfortunately, please take a look into this!