Adobe Acrobat Table Cell Properties - Row Span of More Than 1 Creates Errors

Question

When I set the row span for the Lynx, River otter, and Wolverine cells to anything more than "1," the reading order messes up.

How can I set the row span for each of these cells to 5?

Before:

After setting the "Lynx" cell to a row span of "5."

Please advise.

June38275960qyt4 · Accepted Answer

For future reference, these are the instructions helped me achieve what I was trying to do. Open the Tags panel:View > Show/Hide > Navigation Panes > TagsExpand the structure:Find your tag.Expand it to see rows (), cells ( (table row) still has the correct number of child

or	), and so on.Locate the "Species" cells (e.g., Lynx, River otter, Wolverine):Each of these should only appear once in the table, and their cell (	or	) should appear only once per 5-row block.Delete redundant cells:Acrobat doesn’t remove the extra "row-spanned" cells from the tag tree, so they still exist and confuse screen readers.Delete the extra “Lynx,” “River otter,” and “Wolverine” cells that show up in rows 2–5 of their group. Only the top cell in each group should remain.Reorder child tags if needed:Make sure each
or	tags.Each row should reflect its correct cells excluding the spanned cell, which will already be counted by the rowspan.

try67 · Answer

Acrobat doesn't have a tool for editing tables, namely because tables as a concept don't exist in PDF files.

If you want to do such global changes you really ought to do them in the original file, and then create a new PDF from it.

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