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Re: Acrobat dropping some table cell properties

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From: Elizabeth Thomas
Date: Mar 8, 2019 1:47PM

Dona,
I'm wondering if the source document might be the issue. I've had weird things like that happen when the source document was created in an older version of Excel or Word. I've also had attributes disappear if I've edited the PDF at all. In those cases, I had to add the attributes again. Generally, it has happened when the source document was from an older version of Office (or was in an older file format).

Sorry- not sure if that's at all helpful!

-Elizabeth

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> On Mar 8, 2019, at 11:33 AM, Dona Patrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> I think Acrobat is gaslighting me. I have recently remediated two PDF files
> that contained some complex tables to which I added id and headers
> attributes. After saving (as) the file the id attributes have remained but
> the associated headers and the row/column span attributes have disappeared.
>
> I know these attributes were there just an hour ago because I ran it
> through JAWS to make sure it was reading properly and made some fixes,
> always saving (as).
>
> This is not the only time I have seen this either and I think it has
> happened to colleagues.
>
> Is this a software bug? Perhaps something is wrong with my installation of
> Acrobat professional?
>
> Has anyone else seen this happen?
>
> Thanks for any feedback.
>
> Dona
>