Indesign tables

[Michelle243007171z7l]

I am having trouble copying and pasting one row to another in tables in indesign. I can copy the row but when I go to paste the " paste is greyed out" it does not paste even with command v.

I never had this problem before. I used to do it all the time. THE FOMAT IS EXACTLY THE SAME in both rows

HELP!!!

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

You need to unmerge all your cells to see the problem.

You have a thin column for some reason:

If you merge two horizontal cells into one, they still count as two columns.

There are a couple of columns that I'm not sure why they are in the table.

[nela_5553]

David,

Thank you!!!!!!  That solves everything.  AND thank you for your patience. 

I did not visually SEE that I had an extra column.  In my mind, both tables were EXACTLY the same.

I will rely not rely on my visual count anymore and check the table dialog box.

This knowlege will save me many headaches in the future.

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

They were not visual until I selected the rows in question and clicked the unmerge button a couple of times.

[nela_5553]

Correct- thank you. I tried that and it worked

My next questions is, How in the world are there 13 columns???

It says that... but I only count 10---11 if I split the original column I merged. Am I not counting the columns correctly?

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@nela_5553 

If you delete contents of the table and set stroke to 1pt, black and fill to [White]:

Or select your "empty" table again and UNMERGE:

[nela_5553]

Thank you,

I did not visually see the extra columns. I learned today that I have to trust the table dialog box.

I always understood the columns needed to match--and visually they did.

Not until I checked the table dialog box did I find a discrepency from my visual count and the table dialog box count. Thank you Robert, this solves everything that AI couldn't.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

I'm sorry I meant to say it has the same exact same amount of COLUMNS

See example

By @Michelle243007171z7l

Unfortunately not - one has 11 columns - the other one has only 10... 

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@Michelle243007171z7l

You've EMAIL SIGNATURE and the next column over the SAMPLE TEXT as two columns in the 1st table - but as a single column in the 2nd table. 

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

Make sure you select the entire row when copying and then again when pasting. Don't just click in a cell.