FM 12 - Table row delete issue

[Craig Ede]

You might be better off to just cut and paste into Notepad and then into the FM doc as pure text then converting to the table format you want in FM. 

The MS products bring along a lot of cruft with tables.

Craig

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> From: mnorton at openspan.com 
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com 
> Subject: FM 12 - Table row delete issue 
> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 15:23:10 +0000 
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> Has anyone else run into this? 
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> 1.       Opened a document 
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> 2.       Pasted in a table from an Outlook email (a simple 2 column/12  
> row table) 
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> 3.       Began reformatting the table 
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> -          Applied style 
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> -          Applied tags 
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> -          Added a header row 
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> -          Drag/drop the heading text into the new header row 
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> -          Highlighted old header row (now empty) 
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> o   If I right-click and choose Cut, the Cut Table Cells dialog  
> appears. I choose Remove Cells from Table and FM deletes that row. All  
> is well. 
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> o   If I press Delete, FrameMaker hangs. 
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> I’m guessing that the Cut Table Cells dialog is displayed, but not  
> brought into focus. Since I cannot get to the Cut Table Cells dialog to  
> specify whether I want to clear the contents of the cells or delete the  
> cells, FM is effectively hung and I have to kill it via Task Manager. 
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> I’m using FrameMaker version 12.0.3.424 on a Windows 7 machine. 
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