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Re: Does MS Word support marking up of complex data tables?

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From: Angela French
Date: Jul 13, 2017 9:44AM

Thank you Bevi.

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Here's a W.A.I. tutorial on correcting tables and headers in Acrobat Pro.
https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/PDF20.html

Not tough to do, but does take some time, especially if you have a multi-page table in a PDF.

FYI, Adobe InDesign does a better job with complex tables by at least automatically adding the scope to merged cells, but their tables still need some touch-up work in Acrobat.

--Bevi Chagnon

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Subject: RE: [WebAIM] Does MS Word support marking up of complex data tables?

Here is an example of the kind of complex table I'm talking about. This is html however. http://accessibility.psu.edu/tableshtml/complextablehtml/

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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Does MS Word support marking up of complex data tables?

New version of Word released this past spring now also allows users to designate row headers in the left-most (or first) column.

In the Table Ribbon's design tab, the checkmarks for header row and first column now work. Although they've been in the ribbon for eons, they didn't do anything in controlling the tables.

Small improvement, but an improvement nonetheless.

--Bevi Chagnon

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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Does MS Word support marking up of complex data tables?

Word has only rudimentary table mark up (first row header). Converting to PDF or HTML requires manual markup enhancement as the semantics are not provided by Word.

Jim

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Angela French < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hello,
> Can anyone tell me please, if current versions of MS Word support the
> marking up of complex data tables ? I am unable to find anything on
> the web. I know that as of Word 2010 it was not possible to
> structurally associated merged or split data cells with their
> associated headers. But I don't know about more recent versions.
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Angela French
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