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Tables sometimes disappear when you apply an alignment to them in a multi-column document.

Steps to repeat:
- create new document.
- select Page View if not default.
- add a second column.
- create a simple table, either by entering a bunch of tab-separated fields and converting, or by using Insert Table.
- set the table alignment to either Left or Right.
- *poof*, it's gone (more precisely, it's somewhere to the left of the left margin).

Selecting "Fit to Contents" usually brings it back, unless you have a lot of long fields that end up wrapping. Selecting "Fit to Page" makes it disappear again.

Another (much smaller...) bug with tables is the way the top margin changes when a table extends onto a second page/column. There's a bit of padding above the table on the first page that isn't present on subsequent pages.

-j

Doesn't happen on my end.

I've been having this problem and have been reporting on it to Nisus. I think the problem occurs when a table becomes too wide for the margins. That's especially likely to happen in columns. Using the Fit to Page button fits the table to the page's margins, not the column's. Using the Fit to Content will (or at least might) shrink it down so that it fits within the column.

If columns become unresizeable when the table gets too big (another consequence of tables getting too wide), you might want to switch to Draft View and manually decrease the width of the table there. In order to have something in Draft View to indicate how wide the column is, it might be helpful to set up an empty table in Page View and size it to the column margins manually before you switch to Draft View. This is how I discovered that table width was the problem, since tables don't look too wide in Page View.

--Craig

I just experienced this problem! All my tables became invisible in "Page view" and when printed, but remained visible in "Draft view".

One pair of tables were side-by-side in two columns, but the rest of the document, including several additional tables, was in one column. The tables were center aligned. Although the table margins were nowhere close to the column margins, I found that a minor adjustment to the width of the pair of tables in parallel columns made all the tables reappear.