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How do you prevent cells in table from expanding with the text within that
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Jupe wrote:
How do you prevent cells in table from expanding with the text within that cell? Is there a way to have the word go to the next cell automatically while typing? For the first question, you can fix the size of a cell to absolute measurements as follows: - Click Table AutoFit Fixed Column Width to prevent horizontal expansion AND - Click Table Table Properties Row, check the box for "Specify height", enter the desired height, and change from "At least" to "Exactly". The answer to the second question is "no". If the user continues to type after the fixed cell is full, the overflow text will disappear below the bottom border of the cell. It will still be there (and could be retrieved by enlarging the cell or by using a macro), but it won't be visible. It may be possible to program a macro to jump to the next cell automatically, but it is not possible to make a table behave that way with any built-in features. That macro would be fairly complicated, because there is no easy way for a macro to "know" when a cell is full. You can do that manually, though, by pressing the down-arrow key if the cell in the next row exists, or the Tab key if the row needs to be created. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Hi Jupe,
How do you prevent cells in table from expanding with the text within that cell? Is there a way to have the word go to the next cell automatically while typing? "table", "table properties", "table", "options", uncheck, "Automatically resize to fit contents". Is there a way to have the word go to the next cell automatically while typing? No way, I think. -- Greetings from Bavaria, Germany Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA Vista Small Business, Office XP |
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