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From: Joseph Sherman
Date: Nov 8, 2019 7:49AM

Hi Jon,

I am on a Windows PC, and have tried saving the Excel to PDF in numerous ways. Each way gives me only <TD> cells with no <TH> cells.


Joseph


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Joseph,

Are you by any chance on a Mac, and using the "Acrobat" tab in Excel? If so, try creating the PDF within Acrobat (File > Created > PDF from File).
Does that fix it?

See https://webaim.org/techniques/acrobat/converting for more info on converting files in Office to PDFs.

Jon



On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 10:52 AM L Snider < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> On Mac (and I found this on PC last month), this is now common...I do
> all the right things in Word (2019/365) and Acrobat then just shows
> all THs, annoying as anything, which is why I am now testing out other PDF programs.
> I have also had the all TDs as well. I haven't tested it on Excel for
> a month, but I am sure it is the same...
>
> Cheers
>
> Lisa
>
> On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 1:32 PM Joseph Sherman
> < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to save an Excel Table as a Tagged PDF with <TH>
> > column
> and
> > row cells? I have a simple table formatted as a Table in Excel, with
> Header
> > Row and First Column checked. But when I save as PDF, all the cells
> > are <TD>. Am I doing something wrong or must I manually tag every
> > excel
> table?
> >
> >
> > Joseph
> >
> > > > > > archives at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
> > > >
> > > archives at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
> >