Text and tables are inserted outside the active section in an Office Solution Accelerator for Proposals document (832946)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Office Word 2003
  • Microsoft Office Solution Accelerator for Proposals

SYMPTOMS

When you add text or a table to the end of an inline section in a Microsoft Office Solution Accelerator for Proposals document that is opened from your Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Web site in Microsoft Office Word 2003, the text or the table that you add may not be selected as part of the section when you click the section name in the Documents Action task pane.

CAUSE

This behavior may occur if the text or the table is added outside an inline XML tag.

WORKAROUND

To work around this behavior, toggle the XML tags so that your inline XML tags show in your Office Solution Accelerator for Proposals document, make your inline XML tag a block XML tag, and then add your text or your table inside the block XML tags. To do this, follow these steps:
  1. Edit your Office Solution Accelerator for Proposals document in Word 2003.
  2. On the Document Actions task pane, click Options and Help.
  3. In the Options area, click Toggle XML tags.

    You should now see section tags at the beginning and at the end of each assigned section in your document. Sections that are marked by block XML tags will have a white background, while sections that are marked by inline XML tags will have a colored background.
  4. If you want to insert text with carriage returns or a table into an inline XML section, first change the inline XML section to a block section by making it its own paragraph.

    To do this, move the insertion point before you open inline XML tag, and then press ENTER. Then, move the insertion point immediately after the closing inline XML tag, and then press ENTER.
When you click the section name on the Document Actions task pane to select the section text that you want, your new text or table is selected as part of the section.

To select section text from the Document Actions task pane, follow these steps:
  1. On the Document Actions task pane, click Sections.

    Note Sections is at the top of the Document Actions task pane immediately under Proposals Accelerator.
  2. In the Sections area of the Document Actions task pane, click the name of the section you want to select in the Sections list.

MORE INFORMATION

Word 2003 supports two different kinds of XML tags; block tags and inline tags. A block XML tag contains one or more complete paragraphs of text, and can contain both carriage returns and tables. An inline XML tag contains text inside a paragraph, and does not support either carriage returns or tables. Whenever necessary, Word will try to convert an inline XML tag to a block XML tag, but in some scenarios, this will not be possible.

Office Solution Accelerator for Proposals uses XML tags to identify the sections of a proposal document. If you try to insert carriage returns or tables into a section that is marked by an inline XML tag, Word will try to convert the tag to a block XML tag. If this is not possible, Word will insert the table or text outside the section.
Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:1/26/2004
Keywords:kbprb KB832946 kbAudEndUser
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