WD2000: 1's or 0's Appear at the End of Table Rows

• Microsoft Word 2000

SYMPTOMS

Table rows may have the numeral 1 or a zero (0) to the right of them, and you cannot select or delete these numbers.

For example, a Word table may appear similar to the following.

+--------------------+-------------------+-------------------+
| Sample Text        | Sample Text       | Sample Text       |1
+--------------------+-------------------+-------------------+
| Sample Text        | Sample Text       | Sample Text       |1
+--------------------+-------------------+-------------------+
| Sample Text        | Sample Text       | Sample Text       |1
+--------------------+-------------------+-------------------+ 

CAUSE

This problem may occur when you use Microsoft Word 2000 to open a Microsoft Word 6.0 for Windows document or a Microsoft Word for Windows 95 document that was edited in Microsoft Word 97 for Windows.

RESOLUTION

To work around this problem, copy everything except the last paragraph mark to a new document. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Open the document exhibiting the behavior listed in the "Symptoms" section of this article.



2. To select everything except the last paragraph mark in the document, press CTRL+END to move the insertion point to the end of the document. Then press CTRL+SHIFT+HOME to select everything from the end of the document to the start of the document.



3. On the Edit menu, click Copy.



4. Create a new Word document. To do this, click New on the File menu. Then click Blank Document and click OK.



5. In the new blank document, click Paste on the Edit menu.



6. On the File menu, click Save. Save your new Word document with a new file name and click OK.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words: one ones 0s zeros

Keywords : kbdta wd2000
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug