PPT: Embedded Word Tables Show Unequal Borders (164733)

CAUSE

When you insert a Word table into a PowerPoint slide, Word provides a picture of the table that has an action associated with it. (For example, when you double-click it, PowerPoint starts Word, and tells Word to create a table that is a certain size and that contains certain information.) When you perform that action, Word takes over and replaces the picture of the table with the actual table. When you are finished editing the table, Word closes the table and PowerPoint displays the picture of the table.

While the table is displayed in Word, the borders are described as lines. However, once Word closes the table and PowerPoint displays the picture of the table, the borders are described as very thin rectangles instead of lines.

Thin rectangles use different display code than lines do. If several lines have the same thickness, PowerPoint always displays them in the same thickness. However, if several rectangles have the same width, they are displayed with slightly different widths depending on where they appear on screen.

NOTE: This is not a problem with Microsoft PowerPoint. The same symptoms appear if you insert a Word table into an Excel worksheet, a Publisher publication, or another Word document.