Screenshot of the Cleanup dialog with an arrow pointing at the 'Detable Non-Table Content' section

The Detable Non-Table Content section of the eXtyles Cleanup dialog.

This feature became available with build 4469 (March 2020). Find out more in our blog post!

Check your build number from the eXtyles About box if you don’t see this option on your Cleanup dialog.

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1 Why Detable Content?

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The Detable Non-Table Content section of Cleanup can automatically “detable” the following.

Cleanup Function	Use

Cleanup Function	Use
Single-Row Tables	Finds all tables that are just one row and converts them to: tab-separated text (if the contents of the table appears to be an equation) paragraph-separated text
Equations	Finds all tables that have content in just two columns (discounting empty cells), with an equation in one cell and an equation number in the other cell, regardless of the number of rows, and converts to tab-separated text.
Figures	Finds all tables that contain only: images, figure captions, or panel captions/panel labels. If the table contains more than one figure caption, then the text is separated as paragraph-separated text; otherwise the table is converted to tab-separated text.
References	Finds all tables that are preceded by a reference list title and contain no more than two columns of content, and converts them to tab-separated text. This option is selected by default on the Cleanup dialog.

These operations will not detable content if:

The table is preceded by a paragraph that eXtyles identifies as a table title
The table is followed by a table title that is not itself followed by another table
The first row of the table contains a table title

Why Detable Content?

Occasionally content in your document may be incorrectly formatted in a Word table. For example, the author may have used table cells to achieve white space between an equation and its number:

Screenshot of a Word document where an equation is in the first cell of a single-line table and an equation number is in the second cell

This content should not remain in table cells not just because, semantically, the content is not tabular. In an eXtyles XML workflow, any content that it formatted within a Word table will export to <table> in the XML. In this example, the equation risks being rendered as a table if the XML generated from eXtyles is used for layout.