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when shading a table one cell has a white streak at the bottom
I have windows xp withword 2003. I have tried every suggestion from the help
menue, however, I cannot get rid of the white streak at the bottom of one cell after colour shading the whole table - I have coloured blocks of rows with different colours. It was fine until I split this cell. |
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when shading a table one cell has a white streak at the bottom
Things you can check:
A. The "Apply to" field in Format Borders and Shading Shading tab must be set to "Cell" in order for the shading to always fill out the selected cell(s). Could it be that "Apply to" has been set to e.g. "Paragraph" in the cell(s) with white space? This will result in white space above and/or below the text if you have applied space above and/or below the text in Format Paragraph. In addition, if you have applied cell margins (Table Table Properties Table tab Options), you will see white space along the sides with margins. If A. is not the problem: B. Do you have different bottom cell margins applied to the cells in the row with the problem? This seems to result in white space at the bottom of cells even it you apply the shading to the cells. For example, if one cell in a row has 1mm bottom cell margin whereas the other cells have no bottom cell margin, those cells will have 1mm white space at the bottom (i.e. only the cell(s) with the largest bottom margin will be totally filled - other cells will have a white space corresponding to the difference between the bottom cell margins). For some reason, the same does not seem to apply if you have different top cell margins (at least I did not see any white space in the top of cells when testing in Word 2002 and 2003). -- Regards Lene Fredborg DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "editor" wrote: I have windows xp withword 2003. I have tried every suggestion from the help menue, however, I cannot get rid of the white streak at the bottom of one cell after colour shading the whole table - I have coloured blocks of rows with different colours. It was fine until I split this cell. |
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when shading a table one cell has a white streak at the bottom
Another thing that can make a difference IIRC is having Space Before/After
applied to some, but not all, of the paragraphs in the row. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Lene Fredborg" wrote in message ... Things you can check: A. The "Apply to" field in Format Borders and Shading Shading tab must be set to "Cell" in order for the shading to always fill out the selected cell(s). Could it be that "Apply to" has been set to e.g. "Paragraph" in the cell(s) with white space? This will result in white space above and/or below the text if you have applied space above and/or below the text in Format Paragraph. In addition, if you have applied cell margins (Table Table Properties Table tab Options), you will see white space along the sides with margins. If A. is not the problem: B. Do you have different bottom cell margins applied to the cells in the row with the problem? This seems to result in white space at the bottom of cells even it you apply the shading to the cells. For example, if one cell in a row has 1mm bottom cell margin whereas the other cells have no bottom cell margin, those cells will have 1mm white space at the bottom (i.e. only the cell(s) with the largest bottom margin will be totally filled - other cells will have a white space corresponding to the difference between the bottom cell margins). For some reason, the same does not seem to apply if you have different top cell margins (at least I did not see any white space in the top of cells when testing in Word 2002 and 2003). -- Regards Lene Fredborg DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "editor" wrote: I have windows xp withword 2003. I have tried every suggestion from the help menue, however, I cannot get rid of the white streak at the bottom of one cell after colour shading the whole table - I have coloured blocks of rows with different colours. It was fine until I split this cell. |
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when shading a table one cell has a white streak at the bottom
As far as I remember, I also tried applying different Space Before/After
previously in order to find out whether this could trigger white space. I just tried it again and for me the cells were fully shaded regardless of whether I applied the shading to the cells or to the paragraphs. However, my test does not guarantee anything - there may be combinations where the result would be white space anyway. -- Regards Lene Fredborg DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Another thing that can make a difference IIRC is having Space Before/After applied to some, but not all, of the paragraphs in the row. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Lene Fredborg" wrote in message ... Things you can check: A. The "Apply to" field in Format Borders and Shading Shading tab must be set to "Cell" in order for the shading to always fill out the selected cell(s). Could it be that "Apply to" has been set to e.g. "Paragraph" in the cell(s) with white space? This will result in white space above and/or below the text if you have applied space above and/or below the text in Format Paragraph. In addition, if you have applied cell margins (Table Table Properties Table tab Options), you will see white space along the sides with margins. If A. is not the problem: B. Do you have different bottom cell margins applied to the cells in the row with the problem? This seems to result in white space at the bottom of cells even it you apply the shading to the cells. For example, if one cell in a row has 1mm bottom cell margin whereas the other cells have no bottom cell margin, those cells will have 1mm white space at the bottom (i.e. only the cell(s) with the largest bottom margin will be totally filled - other cells will have a white space corresponding to the difference between the bottom cell margins). For some reason, the same does not seem to apply if you have different top cell margins (at least I did not see any white space in the top of cells when testing in Word 2002 and 2003). -- Regards Lene Fredborg DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "editor" wrote: I have windows xp withword 2003. I have tried every suggestion from the help menue, however, I cannot get rid of the white streak at the bottom of one cell after colour shading the whole table - I have coloured blocks of rows with different colours. It was fine until I split this cell. |
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when shading a table one cell has a white streak at the bottom
And it may be that the white space is not what I'm remembering as being the
problem. I just recall that there was *some* mysterious situation to which the solution turned out to be extra space somewhere. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Lene Fredborg" wrote in message news As far as I remember, I also tried applying different Space Before/After previously in order to find out whether this could trigger white space. I just tried it again and for me the cells were fully shaded regardless of whether I applied the shading to the cells or to the paragraphs. However, my test does not guarantee anything - there may be combinations where the result would be white space anyway. -- Regards Lene Fredborg DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Another thing that can make a difference IIRC is having Space Before/After applied to some, but not all, of the paragraphs in the row. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Lene Fredborg" wrote in message ... Things you can check: A. The "Apply to" field in Format Borders and Shading Shading tab must be set to "Cell" in order for the shading to always fill out the selected cell(s). Could it be that "Apply to" has been set to e.g. "Paragraph" in the cell(s) with white space? This will result in white space above and/or below the text if you have applied space above and/or below the text in Format Paragraph. In addition, if you have applied cell margins (Table Table Properties Table tab Options), you will see white space along the sides with margins. If A. is not the problem: B. Do you have different bottom cell margins applied to the cells in the row with the problem? This seems to result in white space at the bottom of cells even it you apply the shading to the cells. For example, if one cell in a row has 1mm bottom cell margin whereas the other cells have no bottom cell margin, those cells will have 1mm white space at the bottom (i.e. only the cell(s) with the largest bottom margin will be totally filled - other cells will have a white space corresponding to the difference between the bottom cell margins). For some reason, the same does not seem to apply if you have different top cell margins (at least I did not see any white space in the top of cells when testing in Word 2002 and 2003). -- Regards Lene Fredborg DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "editor" wrote: I have windows xp withword 2003. I have tried every suggestion from the help menue, however, I cannot get rid of the white streak at the bottom of one cell after colour shading the whole table - I have coloured blocks of rows with different colours. It was fine until I split this cell. |
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when shading a table one cell has a white streak at the bottom
Hi Lene,
Thank you. The suggestion to check the cell margins did the trick. "Lene Fredborg" wrote: Things you can check: A. The "Apply to" field in Format Borders and Shading Shading tab must be set to "Cell" in order for the shading to always fill out the selected cell(s). Could it be that "Apply to" has been set to e.g. "Paragraph" in the cell(s) with white space? This will result in white space above and/or below the text if you have applied space above and/or below the text in Format Paragraph. In addition, if you have applied cell margins (Table Table Properties Table tab Options), you will see white space along the sides with margins. If A. is not the problem: B. Do you have different bottom cell margins applied to the cells in the row with the problem? This seems to result in white space at the bottom of cells even it you apply the shading to the cells. For example, if one cell in a row has 1mm bottom cell margin whereas the other cells have no bottom cell margin, those cells will have 1mm white space at the bottom (i.e. only the cell(s) with the largest bottom margin will be totally filled - other cells will have a white space corresponding to the difference between the bottom cell margins). For some reason, the same does not seem to apply if you have different top cell margins (at least I did not see any white space in the top of cells when testing in Word 2002 and 2003). -- Regards Lene Fredborg DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "editor" wrote: I have windows xp withword 2003. I have tried every suggestion from the help menue, however, I cannot get rid of the white streak at the bottom of one cell after colour shading the whole table - I have coloured blocks of rows with different colours. It was fine until I split this cell. |
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when shading a table one cell has a white streak at the bottom
We have the same problem and NOTHING seems to fix it. Is it possible the
tables are just corrupt? The documents are very long and very table heavy. Tried the cell margins, tried space before and after, tried making sure that we were actually filling the cells. The only "solution" that we've found is recreating the tables, and there are probably 100 that will have to done, so if anyone has ANY more suggestions before we undertake that, it would be much appreciated. Naomi "editor" wrote: Hi Lene, Thank you. The suggestion to check the cell margins did the trick. "Lene Fredborg" wrote: Things you can check: A. The "Apply to" field in Format Borders and Shading Shading tab must be set to "Cell" in order for the shading to always fill out the selected cell(s). Could it be that "Apply to" has been set to e.g. "Paragraph" in the cell(s) with white space? This will result in white space above and/or below the text if you have applied space above and/or below the text in Format Paragraph. In addition, if you have applied cell margins (Table Table Properties Table tab Options), you will see white space along the sides with margins. If A. is not the problem: B. Do you have different bottom cell margins applied to the cells in the row with the problem? This seems to result in white space at the bottom of cells even it you apply the shading to the cells. For example, if one cell in a row has 1mm bottom cell margin whereas the other cells have no bottom cell margin, those cells will have 1mm white space at the bottom (i.e. only the cell(s) with the largest bottom margin will be totally filled - other cells will have a white space corresponding to the difference between the bottom cell margins). For some reason, the same does not seem to apply if you have different top cell margins (at least I did not see any white space in the top of cells when testing in Word 2002 and 2003). -- Regards Lene Fredborg DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "editor" wrote: I have windows xp withword 2003. I have tried every suggestion from the help menue, however, I cannot get rid of the white streak at the bottom of one cell after colour shading the whole table - I have coloured blocks of rows with different colours. It was fine until I split this cell. |
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when shading a table one cell has a white streak at the bottom
Is the same font/font size used for all of the text in all of the cells in
the rows in which this issue occurs? -- Hope this helps, Doug Robbins - Word MVP Please reply only to the newsgroups unless you wish to obtain my services on a paid professional basis. "Naomi1011" wrote in message ... We have the same problem and NOTHING seems to fix it. Is it possible the tables are just corrupt? The documents are very long and very table heavy. Tried the cell margins, tried space before and after, tried making sure that we were actually filling the cells. The only "solution" that we've found is recreating the tables, and there are probably 100 that will have to done, so if anyone has ANY more suggestions before we undertake that, it would be much appreciated. Naomi "editor" wrote: Hi Lene, Thank you. The suggestion to check the cell margins did the trick. "Lene Fredborg" wrote: Things you can check: A. The "Apply to" field in Format Borders and Shading Shading tab must be set to "Cell" in order for the shading to always fill out the selected cell(s). Could it be that "Apply to" has been set to e.g. "Paragraph" in the cell(s) with white space? This will result in white space above and/or below the text if you have applied space above and/or below the text in Format Paragraph. In addition, if you have applied cell margins (Table Table Properties Table tab Options), you will see white space along the sides with margins. If A. is not the problem: B. Do you have different bottom cell margins applied to the cells in the row with the problem? This seems to result in white space at the bottom of cells even it you apply the shading to the cells. For example, if one cell in a row has 1mm bottom cell margin whereas the other cells have no bottom cell margin, those cells will have 1mm white space at the bottom (i.e. only the cell(s) with the largest bottom margin will be totally filled - other cells will have a white space corresponding to the difference between the bottom cell margins). For some reason, the same does not seem to apply if you have different top cell margins (at least I did not see any white space in the top of cells when testing in Word 2002 and 2003). -- Regards Lene Fredborg DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "editor" wrote: I have windows xp withword 2003. I have tried every suggestion from the help menue, however, I cannot get rid of the white streak at the bottom of one cell after colour shading the whole table - I have coloured blocks of rows with different colours. It was fine until I split this cell. |
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when shading a table one cell has a white streak at the bottom
Some time after posting the previous replies in this thread, I created an
article in which I have tried to cover every single item I could find that could cause problems with the table cell shading. Maybe you will find more things to check in the article: http://thedoctools.com/index.php?show=wt_cell_shading -- Regards Lene Fredborg - Microsoft MVP (Word) DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "Naomi1011" wrote: We have the same problem and NOTHING seems to fix it. Is it possible the tables are just corrupt? The documents are very long and very table heavy. Tried the cell margins, tried space before and after, tried making sure that we were actually filling the cells. The only "solution" that we've found is recreating the tables, and there are probably 100 that will have to done, so if anyone has ANY more suggestions before we undertake that, it would be much appreciated. Naomi "editor" wrote: Hi Lene, Thank you. The suggestion to check the cell margins did the trick. "Lene Fredborg" wrote: Things you can check: A. The "Apply to" field in Format Borders and Shading Shading tab must be set to "Cell" in order for the shading to always fill out the selected cell(s). Could it be that "Apply to" has been set to e.g. "Paragraph" in the cell(s) with white space? This will result in white space above and/or below the text if you have applied space above and/or below the text in Format Paragraph. In addition, if you have applied cell margins (Table Table Properties Table tab Options), you will see white space along the sides with margins. If A. is not the problem: B. Do you have different bottom cell margins applied to the cells in the row with the problem? This seems to result in white space at the bottom of cells even it you apply the shading to the cells. For example, if one cell in a row has 1mm bottom cell margin whereas the other cells have no bottom cell margin, those cells will have 1mm white space at the bottom (i.e. only the cell(s) with the largest bottom margin will be totally filled - other cells will have a white space corresponding to the difference between the bottom cell margins). For some reason, the same does not seem to apply if you have different top cell margins (at least I did not see any white space in the top of cells when testing in Word 2002 and 2003). -- Regards Lene Fredborg DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "editor" wrote: I have windows xp withword 2003. I have tried every suggestion from the help menue, however, I cannot get rid of the white streak at the bottom of one cell after colour shading the whole table - I have coloured blocks of rows with different colours. It was fine until I split this cell. |
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