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Attached is another document with 3 section breaks. In this document all the section breaks say “Continuous”. However, the 3rd section break starts on a new page. Why is this happening?

Yes it still happens even if I copy all the styles from the destination document into the original document. I need to be able to fix this problem with a macro because it happens in a large number of the documents that we have. The 2 manual workarounds that we have so far:
a) Saving the original document as RTF and opening it
Pasting the table into the document as a picture and then it pastes properly after that.
I have tried programming (a) but it won’t work when I run it. So perhaps I will have to write a ‘workaround’ macro to paste the table as a picture, then to paste it. Any better suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Each of our documents seems to have a different set of compatibility options. That probably explains why there are so many issues. I changed all the compatibility options to Word 2002 and saved the documents – but the problem continued…
However, I noticed that after I use paste special as “picture”, and then paste, it always works. See the attached document. Why might this fix the problem?

When you pasted fined in Word2003, did you open both the documents provided and paste from one into the other? I tried this on a computer with Word2003 and it didn’t work.

That is interesting that you mentioned that normal is applied to all cells in the table. Is it possible that the styles within the table were all character styles (not paragraph styles), which is why they didn’t paste in properly, and perhaps took on normal style?

I did find that by saving the document as RTF and opening it, I could then paste everything into the other document successfully, which suggests that it might have been a document corruption issue. However, i couldn’t programmatically do this… and I tried endlessly, but it just wouldn’t work. So the manual fix seems the only solution for now. That is a pity because it happens often and I don’t know the cause.

I found a suggestion on the internet that saving a document as RTF and then opening it in Word would often fix these types of problems. I did this and it worked really well on the sample document. I wrote a macro to save it as RTF and open as Word and then copy and paste all the text. However, the macro doesn’t fix it.
sFilename = ActiveDocument.FullName
ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileFormat:=wdFormatRTF
ActiveDocument.Close
Documents.Open sFilename
activedocument.range.copy
onewdocument.paste

Here is a copy of the document that won’t accept the pasting into. All the style formatting is lost.

What is going wrong?

I just created a table style to align 3 columns differently, but it doesn’t seem to work.

Thanks MacroPod. The code shows there are 13 revisions. It works very well.

The Reviewing Toolbar also seems to get confused by the tables. If I click the “Next” button on it, it gets stuck in the tables.

Thanks for your help.

I tracked down the original document with the images in it, and it was from 1993.When I opened it, it said, “Reading Word for Macintosh File”. I was then able to paste the images into Word.

Thanks Andrew!!! That works perfectly.

The original image (see attached) is 14.18 cm high x 12.5 cm wide. When I paste this into Word (using Paste Special as bitmap) it always scales down to 10.11 cm high x 9.53 cm wide. This happens regardless of the margin or page size.
If I then resize the image in Word the arrowed lines print out very jaggered and fuzzy (see attachment 2).
Is there a way to insert the PDF into Word so that the size remains the same, and the quality is reasonable?

I have tried converting some of out text into PDF in order to paste it back into the Word document.
However, for some reason the page size is always reduced by as much as 20 per cent.
Also, the PDF looks perfect and clear, but when it is pasted into Word the image is always blurry because it is reduced. Is there anyway to force the size of the image?

Sorry. The style has this property set to “PageBreakBefore”

I don’t have a choice about the version of the application, and I am not creating the problem – I am receiving documents with it. I only just figured out how it has occurred. What really bothers me is that all correctly applied styles in the document (of that name) all lose their formatting. It would be nice if someone can help me to fix it.

I just applied the “Good” style to the word “Does” at the end of the document and now the “Good” style also becomes corrupted (see attached)

Is there a way to prevent this from happening?