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From: glen walker
Date: Apr 3, 2018 9:52PM

I do have the latest Office. I don't use PDF Maker (that I know of). From
Word, I just do a Save As and choose PDF as the file type. I looked in
Word > Options > Add-ins (and COM Add-ins) and there aren't any Adobe
plugins. I don't have Acrobat.

And yes, the table in my word document has a header row and row properties
checked.

But while I'm at it, is there a way to make row headers in a table? Column
headers are easy. But I want the first column in my table to serve as the
row headers so that when I navigate vertically through a column, I'll hear
the row header before the cell value. I know I can add a bookmark within
Word itself, and that seems to work when reading the document with word,
but if I save as PDF, the row header information isn't saved. I want
something like <th scope='row'> in my resulting PDF (or resulting HTML).


On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 8:25 PM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Glen Walker wrote:
> <Quote> We've run into the Acrobat setting for large documents before but
> it sounded like this was a separate issue. I made a simple table in Word
> that spanned several pages. When I saved as PDF, the resulting tagged PDF
> had a <table> tag on every page with its own <thead> and <tbody>, so there
> was literally one table per page. That sounds like a bug in Word. </Quote>
>
> It was a bug in the Word-to-PDF conversion, but has been corrected with
> the latest versions of Word and the Acrobat plug-in for Office, PDF Maker.
> Sounds like one or both of your software programs is at least a year
> out-of-date.
>
> Solution: Update both software programs. Current versions are:
> Word 2016 version 1803 or Word 365
> Adobe Acrobat Pro DC version 2018.011.2038
> Adobe PDF Maker version 18 (the plug-in is installed with Acrobat)
>
> There's a slight chance some operator error slipped into your file too, so
> make sure the following is done in the Word file:
>
> 1. Select the header row and ensure that the Header Row check box is
> selected in the Table/Design ribbon.
>
> 2. With header row selected, also go to Table Properties / Row / and check
> Repeat as header row at the top of each page.
>
> With the right software and the right settings in Word, you'll get a
> perfect table. Well, other than right now we get only 1 row automatically
> tagged as the header, but understand that Microsoft is aware of that
> shortcoming and we should be able to set multiple rows as repeating headers
> in the future.
>
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