Word Expert needed
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 2:59 pm
We are transferring documents from Lotus Notes to Word documents. We do this by copying and pasting the Lotus Notes document into a Word template. We then have to go in and clean up the Word document by pasting stuff in the right section.
One feature of the Word document is a table that contains various document properties. If the Lotus Notes document we copy has Section Breaks in it, this table extends off the page in Portrait orientation (but looks fine in Landscape). Once I delete all the Section Breaks, the table snaps to the right size in Portrait mode and the headers/footers that are supposed to be there appear.
Normally this works fine - we have to get rid of the breaks anyway, so no big deal. Occassionally, one of our techs removes all the breaks and the headers/footers appear but the table doesn't snap to the right size. After this point, there is nothing I can add or remove to make it work. I find I have to start over with the original document and remove the breaks again - this has always worked, but I have no idea what they are doing wrong to break it. I've tried removing the breaks in a random order (mimicking a case where they missed one on a first pass and then caught it), but it still always works for me. Any ideas what might be going on?
One other thing - on all the "correct" documents, the margins are 0.8" top and bottom and 0.5" side to side. On the "broken" document, the margins vary, but are not that "correct" ones. I can also fix the document by forcing the margins to the correct size, but I don't know why this works or what is preventing it from auto setting when the techs do it.
One feature of the Word document is a table that contains various document properties. If the Lotus Notes document we copy has Section Breaks in it, this table extends off the page in Portrait orientation (but looks fine in Landscape). Once I delete all the Section Breaks, the table snaps to the right size in Portrait mode and the headers/footers that are supposed to be there appear.
Normally this works fine - we have to get rid of the breaks anyway, so no big deal. Occassionally, one of our techs removes all the breaks and the headers/footers appear but the table doesn't snap to the right size. After this point, there is nothing I can add or remove to make it work. I find I have to start over with the original document and remove the breaks again - this has always worked, but I have no idea what they are doing wrong to break it. I've tried removing the breaks in a random order (mimicking a case where they missed one on a first pass and then caught it), but it still always works for me. Any ideas what might be going on?
One other thing - on all the "correct" documents, the margins are 0.8" top and bottom and 0.5" side to side. On the "broken" document, the margins vary, but are not that "correct" ones. I can also fix the document by forcing the margins to the correct size, but I don't know why this works or what is preventing it from auto setting when the techs do it.