[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Yes, I confess I was surprised that he had as much success as he did with
the column widths vis-a-vis the table width. I never seem to be so
fortunate.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
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Ah! Well I don't see that behaviour as long as I have my Row Height set to
Exactly rather than At Least. However, Table Width varies because there is
no 'Exactly' setting for Columns in the Table Properties dialog, only the
AutoFit, Fixed Column Width option.

Terry

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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What Sam is saying, though, if I read it correctly, is just the opposite:
that the column widths behaved as expected but the row heights did not.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
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Unfortunately, Word tables have always behaved like this. The reason I
see if that where rows can be set to an Exact measurement, the Column
and Table width settings can only be set to a Preferred setting. What
may work is that first set the table without the cell margins. Then
right-click and select AutoFit and chose the Fixed Column Width option.
Now add the Cell Margin settings. Does that resolve the problem?

Note that the table will move to the left of the page margin by the
amount of internal cell margin set so that the text in the table lines
up with the text outside the table. If that's not what you want, indent
the table by the cell margin.

Terry Farrell

"Sesquipedalian Sam" wrote in message
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In Word (2007), I created a 3x3 table. I set the table properties to:

table width = 6", default cell margins = 0
row height = 2", exactly
column width = 2"
cell width = 2", cell margins same as table

Printing with borders I get a 3 x 3 that is exactly 6" wide and 6"
deep and the text completely fills each cell right up to the border.



Next I change the default cell margins to 0.25". All other properties
unchanged. The table properties are now set to:

table width = 6", default cell margins = 0.25
row height = 2", exactly
column width = 2"
cell width = 2", cell margins same as table

Printing with borders I get a 3 x 3 that is exactly 6" wide and but
6.75" deep. The text is about .25" from all 4 borders.


It appears that Word reduced the text area by 0.25" on all 4 sides,
but it also increased row height by 0.25" to 2.25" even though the
properties still say that it is 2".


What is the algorithm here?

Why is each row 0.25" deeper? I would think that it would either
remain the same, like the column widths do, or increase by 0.50",
since I increased both the top and bottom cell margins.