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WD97: Vertical Cell Alignment Lost Pasting to Word for Windows

Article ID: 197760

Article Last Modified on 8/21/2007

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SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Excel, if you copy cells that are formatted for center or bottom vertical alignment, and you paste the cells into a Word document, the height of the cell remains the same, but Word places the text at the top of the cell. In other words, the vertical alignment formatting is lost.

CAUSE

Versions of Word for Windows earlier than Word 97 do not support vertical alignment for table cells. Word 97 does support vertical table cell alignment; however, the vertical formatting is lost when cells are pasted from Microsoft Excel.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, use the Center Vertically button on the Tables And Borders toolbar to re-apply the vertical centering. To do this, use the following steps:
  1. If the Tables And Borders toolbar is not visible, point to Toolbars and click Tables And Borders on the View menu.
  2. In the table, select the cells to format for vertical centering.
  3. On the Tables And Borders toolbar, click Center Vertically.

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