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From: glen walker
Date: Apr 4, 2018 12:32PM

Hmm, the "first column" was checked in my document but the resulting PDF
didn't have a <th> for the row headers. The column headers had <th>.


On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 4:16 AM, Karlen Communications <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Yes, as of Word 2016/Office 365 if you have First Column checked in the
> Table Tools, Design Ribbon, it will identify the cells in the first columns
> as TH cells. This was added about a year ago.
>
> Cheers, Karen
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Apr 3, 2018, at 11:52 PM, glen walker < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> >
> > 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 out-of-date.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 ri
>
> > > > >