Bad Table Rendering When Converting Word Document to PDF

It is always frustrated to see what is being formatted nicely in your Word document become mess up when converted to pdf. One of the problems is table format. Example below shows table see in Word and table see in pdf.

Table display nicely when you see in Office Word

What a mess after converting to pdf

Turn out this is because of the cell margin. Open your table properties and go to cell tab as shown below. Click on the Options... button.

This will bring up Cell Options window as shown below. Noticed that the top and bottom margin is not zero. Change this to zero and click OK.

Convert your pdf document again and you will see that the table format rendering is ok now.

The only problem now is the cell margin gone. To solve this, you just need to use Line Spacing Option as shown below to create the margin you like.

Finally, you got the table format you want in your pdf file.