Suzanne
Wed Dec 28 09:46:38 CST 2005
If you change the view from Final Showing Markup to Final, you should no
longer see the paragraph marks you were unable to delete.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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"JGHwrites" <JGHwrites@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:18350AF9-CB9D-4AAD-AA29-A8CB5760DE7B@microsoft.com...
> A follow-up to my reply to Klaus:
>
> I'm at home now, and I've just reproduced this behavior on my other PC,
also
> running XP Pro and Office 2003. I succeeded in moving the tables to
another
> section of the document, where they sit comfortably separated by
non-immortal
> paragraph marks. So now I had a page on which there are six para marks in
a
> row, none of them deletable by any method I could discover (and I'm fairly
> competent in working around Word's odd behaviors, typically). Then I
turned
> off track changes (which my client expressly wishes me *not* to do)...and
> presto, I could delete the bloody things. Well, ok, I've got it solved,
but
> does this not sound like a teensy bug? Does to me. Anyway, thanks to all
(or
> both, rather) for your suggestions.
>
> "JGHwrites" wrote:
>
> > Klaus -- thanks for the remarks. Actually, I've tried to select and cut
with
> > no success; and the tables aren't inline, as far as I can tell. I know
that
> > removing the last para between tables will merge them -- at the moment,
> > though, in this document (which I'm working on, but didn't originally
> > create...heaven knows what's in the engineer-crafted template!) I have
> > several 'empty' paragraph marks lodged between tables, where I only want
the
> > one that has text associated with it.
> >
> > best,
> > Julian
> >
> > "Klaus Linke" wrote:
> >
> > > "JGHwrites" wrote:
> > > >I have more than once encountered paragraph marks in the body of Word
docs
> > > > (i.e. NOT the last mark in the document) that do not respond to
delete or
> > > > cut
> > > > commands. When DELETE is used, the mark is simply selected. The
current
> > > > example I'm confronting is between two tables...BUT there is also a
> > > > paragraph
> > > > containing text after the first of these two tables. I've tried
deleted
> > > > the
> > > > mark at the end of that para, but it, too, is immortal. I was able
to copy
> > > > the mark, paste it into a fresh document, and delete it there. I
cannot
> > > > discover any formatting or tools settings that control the marks'
> > > > behavior.
> > > > Has anyone else encountered this, and what did you do about it?
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > You can't have a table inline in a paragraph. So Word may try to keep
you
> > > from deleting the paragraph mark right in front of a table.
> > > In Word2003, if I select the paragraph mark in front of a table and
hit the
> > > Del key, the text of the paragraph moves into the first cell of the
table. I
> > > think older versions didn't act like that, and it might be a new bug.
> > >
> > > If you try different things (say "Select, Edit > Cut") you should
still be
> > > able to get rid of the paragraph mark. OTOH, if the paragraph mark was
> > > between tables, the tables will merge after you delete it. If that
isn't
> > > what you want, you could format the paragraph mark as hidden (Format >
> > > Font).
> > >
> > > Greetings,
> > > Klaus
> > >
> > >
> > >