Printing tables in Word 2004

I am trying to print several pages of tables but every time I'm in the print menu Word freezes up on me. I don't understand why...<br>
I've printed the document only a few days ago and then everything was fine. After adding a few things it has gone crazy...<br>
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Could it be that the document is too big to print?<br>
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Sometimes the different cells end up on top of each other... I put in some manual page breaks, I'm not sure maybe that is the problem.<br>
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I do hope that I am explaining this well...<br>
<br>
Thanks

This is a well-known "weakness" in Word 2004/X.

Tables can corrupt, particularly if they are large.

When they do, you can attempt to split the table.

1) Make a copy of the document.

2) Click in a cell at the beginning of a row about two pages down the
table.

3) Go to the Table menu and click the item "Split Table"

Do that about every two to five pages. It might fix it.

If not:

1) Select the entire table

2) Go to the Table menu and choose Convert>Table to Text

3) Choose to separate with "Tabs" and OK

DO NOT MOVE THE SELECTION

4) Go to the Table menu again, and choose Convert>Text to Table...

This re-builds the table, removing the corruption. Save the document, it
will be fine after that. Of course, you may have more than one corrupt
table!

Note that "Tables" are quite a challenge to Word, your computer, and your
Printer. If any of these is suffering from lack of memory or lack of CPU
power, printing big tables is going to be a problem. Try stopping
(Quitting) all other applications before you attempt to print the table.

All going well, Word 2004 will print a document containing about 500 pages
of tables without too much of a problem. But a single table 500 pages long
is probably asking too much.

Hope this helps

On 30/01/08 4:39 PM, in article ee8b4f7.-1 DeleteThis @webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,
"keeweeset@officeformac.com" <keeweeset DeleteThis @officeformac.com> wrote:

> I am trying to print several pages of tables but every time I'm in the print
> menu Word freezes up on me. I don't understand why...
> I've printed the document only a few days ago and then everything was fine.
> After adding a few things it has gone crazy...
>
> Could it be that the document is too big to print?
>
> Sometimes the different cells end up on top of each other... I put in some
> manual page breaks, I'm not sure maybe that is the problem.
>
> I do hope that I am explaining this well...
>
> Thanks

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