That was it. Thank you.

Wonder why that happened. It certainly did not set it that way.

Jeff

"Lene Fredborg" wrote in message
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Check the left and right indentation of the text (in the Paragraph dialog
box). A negative right indent will make the text disappear to the right.
The left and right indent need to be set to the same value in order to
make centered text appear precisely centered.

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Best regards
Lene Fredborg
Microsoft MVP (Word)
DocTools - Denmark
http://www.thedoctools.com

skrev i en meddelelse
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I'm using Word 2002 in XP.

I need to use a 7 column table. So, using a page setup in landscape, I
created a 5 column table because that was the maximum option Word
offered. I then added 2 columns to get to 7 columns.

Problems:
a) centering the text in the cells is off
b) text that extends beyond the column width disappears to the right.

Is there a way around these problems? Thanks.

Jeff