title: Word VBA Font.Hidden property becomes unreadable if selection is in table and selection is big
body: <p>This is very easy to replicate....Please follow my steps with MS Word.</p>
  
  <p>In a Word file, create a fairly large table (of about five columns and twenty rows). Populate all cells with some junk text.
  Or, pick a "good sized" table in a file that you already have.</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Select (or "Highlight") a few rows of the table, such as three rows.</li>
  <li>Go to the Font section of the Word Ribbon. Notice that the Hidden
  property of the selection is showing as "not checked" which means
  visible. This is what you expect to see (for now).</li>
  <li>Optionally, also go to the Immediate Window of the VB Editor and
  type "? Selection.Range.Font.Hidden". Word will respond "0", meaning
  the .Hidden property is false. This is another way of verifying what
  you saw in Step 2.    </li>
  <li>Now select an <em>additional</em> few rows of the table. Go to Step 2 and repeat.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>By the time your Selection gets up to about 12 rows (your results may vary somewhat), the Hidden checkbox shows a solid block to indicate "mixed hidden-ness", and "? Selection.Range.Font.Hidden" shows 9999999 to indicate 'undefined" state.</p>
  
  <p>WHY does the .Hidden property become unreliable/unreadable when the selection is in a table and the selection is relatively many rows? This does not happen when the Selection in a non-table. This is messing up a program of mine that is otherwise very good.</p>