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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Nov 8, 2019 4:09PM

Tagging got worse on the Windows side about then as well, especially from
PowerPoint using either the Adobe Acrobat Pro DC Ribbon or the Microsoft
tool. At this point in time, I save the PowerPoint as an outline, format it
in Word and everyone gets that. Saves me hours of trying to weed my way
through the mash up of Tags.

Cheers, Karen

-----Original Message-----
From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of L
Snider
Sent: Friday, November 8, 2019 5:54 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Save Excel Table as Tagged PDF?

Oh and for me on the Mac, every way is a problem...I am on Insiders Fast
Build, and it got worse about 4 months ago...I don't know where the
mainstream version is with Mac, but I am hoping it gets better (although it
happened on PC fast insider too)...

What version of Acrobat DC is working? Mine is the latest.

Cheers

Lisa

On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 10:24 AM Joseph Sherman < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> I cannot replicate your success. I created a simple 3x3 table, applied
> table style with header row and export to PDF/XPS. I get no THead or
> TBody tags, just all TR and TD cells.
>
>
> Joseph
>
>
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> From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of
> Philip Kiff
> Sent: Friday, November 8, 2019 10:22 AM
> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Save Excel Table as Tagged PDF?
>
> 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
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf
> > Of Jonathan Whiting
> > Sent: Thursday, November 7, 2019 12:05 PM
> > To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> > Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Save Excel Table as Tagged PDF?
> >
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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
> >>>
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