Bug with DOCX tables in Publisher

[Dimmo]

I have notice a problem with placing DOCX tables, when placing a table with merged cells (as displayed on the left of page) the first column will be way to wide it appears that the first column is the width of the whole table, the table displayed is 60mm wide in MS Word and the first column here is 60mm wide, The table displayed on the right of page is without the merged cells and is the right width.

[Lee D]

@Dimmo Do you have a copy of the .docx file so I may test. I know that we don't replicate the layout code from Word, which is by design, so this may be related to that.

[Dimmo]

Hi Lee, have attached the 2 tables from Word but will happen with any table that has merged cells.

Also doesn't honour borders, these file don't have borders but Publisher puts them in.

Team List Table.docx Team List Table no headers.docx

[Dimmo]

@Lee D Hi Lee has been a couple of months since I uploaded table samples, any ideas if anything can be done to fix this problem with merged cells

[Alfred]

On 7/30/2023 at 1:16 PM, Dimmo said:

@Lee D Hi Lee has been a couple of months since I uploaded table samples

@Lee D It’s been over a year now.

[Lee D]

@Dimmo Sorry for the delay, it's logged with the developers to investigate further. We also had an issue similar to this logged with regards to not replicating Words layout code, this was closed as by design.

It may also relate to an issue we have logged with Excel tables that have merged cells but that does cause the app to crash.

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