When you import a Word doc with tables, RH picks up a bunch
of MS Office tags. These tags make Office documents more readily
available between MS applications but are not mainstream html code.
Of course, MS IE has no problem ignoring the tags.
You've discovered that one solution is to build tables from
scratch in RH. But there's another way you might try.
1. In the Word .doc, simplify the table structure as much as
possible. Make all cell padding 0. Remove cell borders and space
between cells. Most text formatting can stay: fonts, bold, italics,
alignment, paragraph spacing, and so on.
2. Import the document and look at the html table code.
You'll see a default cell padding line that you must remove,
because it interferes with the RH table formatting dialog. You may
see other tags that were applied consistently, by default, in Word
before you imported the document to RH.
3. If you are comfortable running find-and-delete, you can do
it one topic at a time in RH, or use the RH utiliity for all
topics. I use FAR, a separate text editor. Textpad and others can
do the job as well.
4. Use RH dialogs to re-format tables.
The usual comments: Your choice depends partly on how many
tables are involved, and how complicated they are. Back up all
topics that may be affected by your global find-and-delete. If you
use an outside text editor, make sure the project is not open in RH
during the editing.
Good luck.
Harvey
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