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Re: Save Excel Table as Tagged PDF?

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From: Philip Kiff
Date: Nov 8, 2019 8:22AM

You might try re-applying a default "Table Style" to your table? Or cut
and paste just your table data into a fresh table, and then select your
data and apply a fresh Table Style to it, and indicate in the pop-up
modal that your table has a heading row?

When I tested this just now to a fresh, bare new Excel with 3 rows and 3
columns, and used the Microsoft Office 2016 built-in Export -> Create
PDF/XPS Document function, I get a properly tagged PDF with a Table
tag,  THead and TBody tags, and with proper TH's nested in a single TR
in the THead.

Phil.

On 2019-11-08 09:49, Joseph Sherman wrote:
> 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
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>
>
> 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
>>>
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