I have found that saving Word files as XML and then copying and pasting tables out of Word and into a Matrix page gives a result which looks fine in preview. A problem is that the resulting HTML in Matrix is very messy - even after the clean up tool is used.
Consequently we are not allowed to use this method and are expected to recreate tables in Matrix and rekey the data. This is very time consuming and error prone.
The concern with the 'XML copy and paste method' is that the messy code will some break the cascading style sheets causing the resulting web pages to not meet our access requirments (W3C AA useabilty), eg with all the different browsers and devices such as the Ajax Reader.
Has anybody tested such Word XML sourced tables or solved this problem in another way?
Do you have HTMLTidy enabled to clean up your content? What exactly does the HTML look like?