Hi Pat On 11/17/06, pxenson at comcast.net <pxenson at comcast.net> wrote: > A client's template currently has Cautions formatted as a three-cell table: > The > Caution icon (in a reference) frame is in the first cell, the word "Caution" > (in > the Autonumbering field of the CautionHead) is in the second, and the writer > types text in the third. > > They want to change to a two-cell table with the icon in the first cell and > the > word "Caution" as a run-in head in the second cell along with the text. > > Here's the strange behavior: When you change the CautionHead paragraph to a > run-in head and straddle the two cells, the run-in head disappears. I'm > guessing > this is because technically that paragraph is empty, having no manually > entered > text, just the word "Caution" from the autonumbering field. > > I realize there are other ways to achieve the same look but if the run-in head > wasn't destroyed by straddling the cells, it would be simpler to convert > existing Cautions to the new format. Any ideas on how I can get this to work?
My first thought is convert table to text and back again. This simple trick can save a lot of bother. From what you say, you have Cell 1: Icon Cell 2: paratag Cell 3: text Conversion gives you Icon Tab paratag Tab text (You can specify that cell divisions are tabs, semi-colons, whatever.) Then you just remove the second Tab so you have Icon Tab paratag text Convert that back to a table, and you should have Cell 1: Icon Cell 2 paratag text Marking a table gives you the choice of Table > Convert to Paragraphs... Marking text block gives you Table > Convert to Table... Does that help (or make any sense)? regards, Karen Mardahl
