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From: Dona Patrick
Date: Mar 8, 2019 3:07PM

Elizabeth! I think you are on to something. I edited both PDF files. This
last one, however, wasn't edited after I know that all table cell
properties were correct.

Dona

On Fri, Mar 8, 2019, 3:47 PM Elizabeth Thomas < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > 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
> >
>