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Re: Save Excel Table as Tagged PDF?

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From: Philip Kiff
Date: Nov 8, 2019 8:28AM

And this actually surprises me: if I indicate "First Column" as well as
"Header Row" in the "Table Style Options", I also get properly formatted
TH tags for each cell in the first column. I didn't realize Excel could
even do that until now.

Phil.

On 2019-11-08 10:22, Philip Kiff wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>