I have been running into an issue lately where the contents of tables is going nuts on me if I try to move, or even copy and paste the table. I just want to move it over a little, and the text gets all huge and disfigured. THIS: turns into THIS: .
And undo won't fix it. The text cannot be fixed. Text was entered as a straight table, so I don't get it.
What's happening?
P.S. Not new to CorelDraw, been using it since 1989 Ver, 2
Sad that I can't figure this out by myself.
Would it be possible to post a sample file containing the affected table? I have tried to recreate the issue, but have not been able to.You mentioned later in this forum thread that resetting to factory defaults resolve it for a period of time, but then it returns. Are there particular actions that you can think of that take place between that time? Customization, changing default styles/properties, or perhaps document properties? Any information would be helpful to try to trace the source of your issue.
Thank you, Sharon
The file is proprietary, so unfortunately, I cannot share it. I have, however noticed a new behavior with Draw tables that it groups everything. I hit ungroup, and the problem seems less (if not complete fixed). If I ungroup, select everything with a lasso and then move, the text behaves. The biggest problem is if I forget to do the ungroup and just nudge or try to move the table, the text goes to full extent of the cell, and I CANNOT CHANGE IT BACK. That's the biggest pain.
UPDATE! I found my source of ire. When the text in the table is in paragraph format, it behaves well if I move the table. I had been using a macro to convert some imported text, and had not realized that it had changed the text on my table page (BAD MACRO!).
Now, there is still the problem that once it has been turned to artistic, if it is part of the table, I have no option to convert it to paragraph, like I would normally.
Thank you Lorrie.
That clears up my question on how the grouping is occurring. I am not seeing that on basic table creation.
What I am not understanding, is where is the table text appearing as artistic text? Can you provide the steps or explain what the macro is doing with the imported text?
I'm doing a large project that involves converting a whole lot of old Autocad drawings into CorelDraw (since I don't have Autocad). On a second page, I imported a .DwG file that had a lot of text that all came in as really wide paragraphs. (One letter A had a 19" paragraph box). There were probably 80-100 of these per page. Since I did not feel like converting each one separately (I have over 50 of these drawings to convert) I wrote a macro to convert all those imported paragraphs to artistic text. It worked great. What I didn't realize was that running the macro on page 2, also affected the table on page 1, turning my table with its nice paragraph text in the cells, into a table full of artistic text. My method is to now bring the DWG into an empty document, clean it up as necessary and then copy it to my final document.