Tables - how to fix a table that imported oddly?

[ccardimon]

I imported a Word doc containing a table. The table is readable, but wonky.

The first part of the table looks weird.

table1.png

The second part does not look as bad.

table2.png

How can I get the first part to look more like the second part?

[LTinker68]

There is probably some inline code or multiple tags around the items shown in the first screenshot. Try putting your cursor somewhere in one of the bad lines of text (don't select any text, though), then see what tags show up in the show blocks area on the left side of the XML Editor. Make note of what tag blocks are there and how deep the text is. Then place the cursor in one of the lines of text that look better. Make note of what tag blocks show up there. Are there fewer tag blocks around the good line of text? If so, then try unbinding some of the tags on the text in the first screenshot.

If that wasn't it, then see what <td> class is applied to the "bad" text and which class (if any) is applied to the "good" text. Set them to the same, if possible.

If that wasn't it, open the topic in the Internal Text Editor and compare the code for the "bad" text and the "good" text. There is probably inline style formatting on one or both sets of tags that are overriding the styles in the stylesheet. Remove all inline formatting.

Those are a few suggestions to get you started.

[ccardimon]

Thanks, Lisa. I'm trying all of the above.