The borders on tables in Microsoft Word keep disappearing for all people in my company

Jonathan Khan 175

For all users at our business, when we open up Word files with tables within them, the borders of the tables disappear and we have to manually add them back. Does anyone know why this happens and what we can do to fix this?

Igor Konecny 40 Reputation points

2025-11-04T11:57:44.28+00:00

Also in our company (since 31-Oct-2025) tables loose design, in case docx is in onedrive and minimal 2 persons open it with autosave on.
Lindsey 30 Reputation points

2025-11-05T01:44:48.7933333+00:00

We are having the same issue at our company with our Word 365. It just started in the last week or so. There are quite a few posts in message boards online from people having the same issue. Is this related to a recent update? There is no way so many people suddenly having this issue is a coincidence.

In our case, the files are saved in a SharePoint folder. These are documents that have never had issues before, and it seems to affect all of our documents. Users are not removing the borders. It is happening on its own. We can reapply the borders by modifying the saved table style (like Table Grid, for example, which now appears in the Table Styles without borders), but once we close the document, the issue just comes back when it is reopened.
Alex Nache 265 Reputation points

2025-11-05T09:55:40.1133333+00:00

Users at our business are also experiencing this issue increasingly more day after day. This began on the 28th last week with a handful of documents and since it's has spread to further documents. We have 'track changes for everyone' enabled on all documents that have been affected and when I check the version history, no amendment regarding the removal/amendment of table borders was carried out. For investigation purposes, I also tried restoring the version that I noticed the problem began occurring on, however, once I open the restored document, the table borders appear fine. Please can you advise?
Micaiah 20 Reputation points

2025-11-05T13:24:08.99+00:00

I've seen it at my company too. Word documents are shared across a Teams/SharePoint format. It doesn't appear to affect single column tables. But all multi-column tables have lost their border formatting.
Mikko 35 Reputation points

2025-11-05T14:05:23.38+00:00

When user saves a file hosted in SharePoint while it is open by another user same thing happening here as well. The issue started few days ago.
Donna Wolanin 15 Reputation points

2025-11-05T15:02:50.5466667+00:00

Does this have anything to with a recent update? We are experiencing the same issue with Sharepoint documents.
Tyler Dobie 105 Reputation points

2025-11-05T17:14:59.69+00:00

so ... is Microsoft going to fix this?
Joseph St. Louis 125 Reputation points

2025-11-05T20:42:18.5066667+00:00

We're experiencing this issue as well. It started after a recent update. Users have to continually reapply borders to their tables after they randomly disappear. The documents impacted are stored in OneDrive/SharePoint.
Jonathan Guthrie 20 Reputation points

2025-11-05T21:02:59.3+00:00

This is occurring with Sharepoint and Box collaborated files.
Christina Lin 20 Reputation points

2025-11-06T01:03:24.76+00:00

I have the same issue pretty much exactly the same as reported by others and started just about within the last 5 days. It is really frustrating.
KrisW 40 Reputation points

2025-11-06T03:01:46.74+00:00

It’s happening at my organisation also. Was able to replicate the issue to our L2 support team and I’m hoping they can raise with Microsoft. It’s causing chaos across our management system documents.
Andre Trentini 20 Reputation points

2025-11-06T03:35:16.93+00:00

When submitting a support request via 365 tenant - this AI generated response appears, mentioning that There is no immediate fix.

"The issue of table borders and other table formatting being intermittently removed or altered is related to a known problem where table layouts unexpectedly change after updating to version 2508 (build 19127) of Word. This can cause columns or rows to be displaced or extend beyond page boundaries. The Word team is currently investigating this issue. There is no immediate fix available yet."
Dionne Sellick 5 Reputation points

2025-11-06T17:08:42.51+00:00

we have experienced the same, and also color of some of our rows went black where they were blue before . same time line. word docs saved on OneDrive and shared with other users.
Navarro 10 Reputation points

2025-11-06T17:17:16.45+00:00

Same issue here. Our team is working on a report with over a hundred tables, and the borders keep disappearing. We keep restoring the last properly formatted version, but that means losing new data every time. It’s very frustrating.
Heather Pierson 5 Reputation points

2025-11-06T18:43:35.0166667+00:00

Same issues here in public school setting. This is a bug. Microsoft, please fix.
Marie Sturgis 0 Reputation points

2025-11-06T20:28:06.0466667+00:00

We are having all the same issues mentioned by others. I'm in an industry where we are very concerned with compliance. We are seeing borders and gridlines disappear but more concerning is whole header content disappearing. Hoping Microsoft gets on this STAT!
VIGBUK 15 Reputation points

2025-11-10T17:32:30.0433333+00:00

I agree the issue seems to be getting worse. Today I repeatedly changed back the tables to the correct formatting and they kept spontaneously losing their formatting, all the borders disappeared and all the rows became 'header rows' which totally messes up the formatting of the pages every time. No matter how many times I correct it it keeps changing again. These are large documents and it is wasting a lot of time trying to correct them
Kieran Egan 5 Reputation points

2025-11-17T06:52:12.4633333+00:00

I had to resort to pasting tables with borders from previously archived version of the thesis

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Brad Phillips 20

Found this statement it has been fixed on Nov 5 - but no info on build #, release plans, etc. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/in-a-coauthored-word-document-table-formats-get-corrupted-1e58f9a1-df7a-48be-b82c-d76131dc2319

Moderator's edit (11/17):

That page was updated on November 13. They are still working on it.

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Igor Konecny 40 Reputation points

2025-11-07T08:55:21.5233333+00:00
Hi tables now looks OK but font in styles change to Times New Roman in this case :

Person A open document shared on onedrive

Person B open the same document (at this moment everything looks good)

Person B close the document (person A still has it opened)

Person B open document again and fonts on styles are changed to Times New Roman (Person A has still right fonts)

Person A close and Open the document and fonts are changed

Its absolutely frustrating !!!
Lampert, Robin (DTMB) 20 Reputation points

2025-11-10T17:32:45.69+00:00

Still happening as of today (Nov 10).
VIGBUK 15 Reputation points

2025-11-10T17:34:42.85+00:00

There doesnt appear to be any evidence of a fix on my end, if anything the problem has become worse this week and now all the tables are becoming 'header rows' in addition to losing their borders
KrisW 40 Reputation points

2025-11-11T04:10:30.9766667+00:00

I don’t think the fix has worked. If we close all sessions, reopen the document and apply the style again then save and close, the document still fails again in the next coauthoring scenario.
Gabriel Vallim 5 Reputation points

2025-11-11T10:31:39.79+00:00

Still happening in my organization in several docx files (10-Nov-2025)
Tom Lancaster 0 Reputation points

2025-11-11T15:16:42.4966667+00:00

It does not seem to be fixed based on our expience.
Charles Kenyon 167.5K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator

2025-11-12T18:58:27.1233333+00:00

Do you have the latest update to Office/Word?
Donna Wolanin 15 Reputation points

2025-11-12T19:01:20.32+00:00

What would that be and I can check with our IT?
Brad Phillips 20 Reputation points

2025-11-12T22:10:31.3133333+00:00

We are on the Monthly Enterprise Channel:

"Microsoft Word for Microsoft 365 MSO (Version 2508 Build 16.0.19127.20314) 64-bit"
We have not received an update for the monthly channel yet - that is supposed to have been updated the second Tuesday of each month (as of this writing, yesterday 11-Nov-2025), version 2509, Build 19231.20246
The release notes https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/monthly-enterprise-channel do not make any mention of this bug fix for 2509.
Has anyone been able to update to 2509 and confirm if the issue is resolved or not?

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Stefan Blom 342.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2025-11-06T20:03:05.5733333+00:00

Do you see this in Word Online (OneDrive and/or SharePoint)? If you download the document and view it in a local installation of Word, does the problem persist?

If possible, share such a problematic document with the forum so that we can have a closer look. Of course, any personal information should be removed from the document before you share it.

You may also want to report this to Microsoft, via Help > Feedback.
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Sam Torian 10 Reputation points

2025-11-05T15:12:34.3366667+00:00
We are having the same issue and have narrowed it down to this scenario:
- Word Documents are stored in SharePoint
- User 1 opens in Word application, table styles are present
- User 2 opens in Word in browser and selects to edit the document in Word app
- The switch from browser to Word app appears to remove the table styles with borders and replaces with no borders style
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Heather Pierson 5 Reputation points

2025-11-06T18:45:09.3166667+00:00

Yes - this is also what we are experiencing
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Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2025-11-04T21:54:56.92+00:00

@Jonathan Khan

Does the issue still occur if you hold down the SHIFT key while opening the document?
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Heather Pierson 5 Reputation points

2025-11-06T18:44:37.95+00:00

Yes it does
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Marisa Castillo (US) 5 Reputation points

2025-11-06T14:55:25.3733333+00:00

Table styles in Microsoft Word keep disappearing when the file is shared on a SharePoint site and multiple people are viewing/editing said document.
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VIGBUK 15 Reputation points

2025-11-10T17:35:51.4733333+00:00

I am having the same issue. It keeps recurring even when I change the styles back again

Charles Kenyon 167.5K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator

2025-12-07T01:44:53.57+00:00

Marissa and Vigbuk,

This is a known bug that was fixed in the most recent update (according to my information). If you have more problems please post your own separate question with your information.

Stefan Blom 342.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2025-12-07T14:48:29.4566667+00:00

To add to what Charles has said, the support article now states that the issue was fixed on December 1. See https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/formatting-lost-when-coauthoring-a-word-document-1e58f9a1-df7a-48be-b82c-d76131dc2319. Since you are in an organization, you (or the local Office admin) can open a support ticket with Microsoft business support, if necessary.
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