What have I done?

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On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 08:34:44 -0400, "SC Tom" wrote:



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On Sat, 09 Mar 2019 16:02:17 -0700, Ken Blake
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On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 16:43:06 -0600, GlowingBlueMist
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On 3/9/2019 2:33 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
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have several .doc files containing tables for which I have been
using MS Word v2003. Has always worked fine. I started playing
around with settings in an effort to improve screen readability

SOmetimes if you set a background colour, and leave the foreground on
"auto" rather than setting a foreground colour, MS office gets
confused
while LibreOffice displays ok

suggest you select the whole table, and set e.g. white background and
black foreground

I agree with Andy Burns but if that does not fix things I would also
suggest selecting the entire spreadsheet and selecting the Font type
again. Possibly the white on white, as it appears, is due to a font
that MS Office does not have or support but LibreOffice does.


Fonts are generally supported by Windows, not by the programs running
under them.

I tried some of your suggs - no improvement - just made things worse.
One thing really surprises me - the lack of the grid lines as well.
So the overall table suffers the same problem.
xxxxx

Open Word, click in the table. Then click on Table in the menu bar,
SelectTable. The whole table should now be highlighted. Click on Table in
the menu again and select Table AutoFormat. Choose from the list and see
if
any of them is what you want your table to look like.

Also look at Format in the menu, click on Background and select No Fill.
Actually, I might try that first. If I select Background and pick the
black
color, it duplicates what yours looks like. Clicking on No Fill corrected
it, bringing back the white background and black letters (I'm also using
Word2003).

HTH,
It did.
I thank u Tom.
Ur explicit instructions caused me to play around again with those
menus/selections, and this time I made them work to undo my mess.
Thanx again
xxxxx

Happy to help; glad it worked for you :-)