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1. #How to merge cells in word 2016 how to
2. #How to merge cells in word 2016 update
3. #How to merge cells in word 2016 Patch
4. #How to merge cells in word 2016 pro

Poster Jase L dissected the problem on the Microsoft Answers forum and in the Technet forum:

#How to merge cells in word 2016 update

Why would an Office update break pasting merged cells into a word document? Any advise on this will be greatly appreciated this is impacting over 4600 documents at this time, and I am sure we will be finding many more. I tried this on a system that is not patched and the merged tables display properly in Word. If you un-merge the cells and paste it back into Word, it shows all of the data. If you copy the table out of Word and paste it into Excel, the data shows. If the cell is merged you can't click on the cell or see the data in the cell. Have a Word document that includes multiple tables, in each table there are merged cells.

#How to merge cells in word 2016 pro

Windows 10, Office 2016 Pro Plus both fully patched. Poster RAJasonCampbell on the Microsoft Answers forum describes the bug thusly: The only solution is to uninstall KB 3213656. Microsoft hasn’t yet acknowledged the problem, but there are several credible, detailed reports about the bug.

#How to merge cells in word 2016 Patch

The buggy patch was pushed out the Automatic Update chute on Aug. On the contrary, you are liable to make your content less accessible if you do.If you have tables in a Word doc or Outlook message and you suddenly can’t see or click on specific cells, chances are good that 1) the tables have merged cells, 2) you’re using Word 2016 or Outlook 2016, and 3) you installed this month’s KB 3213656. But fixing them in Acrobat is quick and easy (once you are familiar with the process) so there really is no need to avoid merging cells when you need to.

Yes it’s true that complex Word-authored tables are a problem, out of the box. In a PDF, the above table (and more complex ones besides), if formatted correctly, will work fine in both JAWS and NVDA. For example, the table below would have to be divided in to four separate tables: one for Red team 2020, one for Blue team 2020, one for Red team 2019, and one for Blue team 2019.īut forcing readers to navigate between multiple tables will make it more difficult to make comparisons between different categories of data (in this case teams and years), thus rendering the content less usable and less accessible. In order to dispense with merged cells you will be forced to break tables into multiple smaller units. Suffice it to say that it’s a relatively simple and straightforward process, once you are familiar with it.

#How to merge cells in word 2016 how to

There are plenty of guides around on how to tag tables in Acrobat, so I won’t reproduce the information here (these include, or my ageing but still relevant ebook Design and build accessible PDF tables). They automatically get the correct column or row span attributes when exported to PDF (although row headers and scope attributes will need editing). Merged header cells in InDesign-no problemīy contrast, header cells that are merged in InDesign will cause no problems at all. Such cells will need to be fixed after the document has been exported to PDF, along with headers and scope which are both likely to need fixing in all but the simplest of tables. (The shortcomings of MS Word in this respect are perhaps the source of people’s concerns about PDF data tables). Although Word 2003 used to get merged cells right (sort of), all subsequent versions don’t. Unfortunately, MS Word doesn’t do a great job of generating column span or row span attributes.

Figure 1: Table header cell attributes dialogue box in Acrobat Pro Merged header cells in MS Word-need repair Without this, the wrong headers are liable to be read out before each data cell, thus rendering the content unintelligible.

When navigating around a correctly formatted table, a screen reader user will hear the appropriate column or row headers being read out before the data value for any given cell. Taking it at face value could do more harm than good. This advice needs a fair bit of qualification. I often hear from organisations who have been advised, for accessibility reasons, to avoid merging cells in tables in PDFs.