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
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"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.