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Baselines of fonts at the same height
Two adjacent cells contain text of different sizes. In Word 2003 and
2007, is there a way to vertically place the texts so that the baselines of the fonts will be at exactly the same height? Illustration: http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/6968/cells.gif The Wikipedia article about the baseline: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseline_(typography) |
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Baselines of fonts at the same height
Select the cells, Table Properties, Cell tab, Options button, ensure that
Bottom Vertical alignment is selected, then click the Options button, in the Bottom margin box there should be a value, if it is blank then one of the cells has a different value from the other(s). Correct this and all should be well. Hope this helps DeanH "pnumminen" wrote: Two adjacent cells contain text of different sizes. In Word 2003 and 2007, is there a way to vertically place the texts so that the baselines of the fonts will be at exactly the same height? Illustration: http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/6968/cells.gif The Wikipedia article about the baseline: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseline_(typography) |
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Baselines of fonts at the same height
Also, if it's a case of having several lines of text in each adjacent cell,
you can set the paragraph line spacing to an exact amount that will accommodate the largest font size. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "DeanH" wrote in message ... Select the cells, Table Properties, Cell tab, Options button, ensure that Bottom Vertical alignment is selected, then click the Options button, in the Bottom margin box there should be a value, if it is blank then one of the cells has a different value from the other(s). Correct this and all should be well. Hope this helps DeanH "pnumminen" wrote: Two adjacent cells contain text of different sizes. In Word 2003 and 2007, is there a way to vertically place the texts so that the baselines of the fonts will be at exactly the same height? Illustration: http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/6968/cells.gif The Wikipedia article about the baseline: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseline_(typography) |
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I see what you mean, but that doesn't seem to do the trick.
The settings and what they do: http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/4125/cells2..gif On May 29, 5:48*pm, DeanH wrote: Select the cells, Table Properties, Cell tab, Options button, ensure that Bottom Vertical alignment is selected, then click the Options button, in the Bottom margin box there should be a value, if it is blank then one of the cells has a different value from the other(s). Correct this and all should be well. |
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Part of the issue here is that all fonts have a certain amount of "leading"
built in, most of it above the line but some of it below. Also, the way line spacing works can be affected by numerous Compatibility Options. It's worth looking at those to see whether changing any of them will make a difference. But I think you will find that if you set both cells to same Exact line spacing, the problem will be greatly reduced. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "pnumminen" wrote in message ... I see what you mean, but that doesn't seem to do the trick. The settings and what they do: http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/4125/cells2.gif On May 29, 5:48 pm, DeanH wrote: Select the cells, Table Properties, Cell tab, Options button, ensure that Bottom Vertical alignment is selected, then click the Options button, in the Bottom margin box there should be a value, if it is blank then one of the cells has a different value from the other(s). Correct this and all should be well. |
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pnumminen was telling us:
pnumminen nous racontait que : Two adjacent cells contain text of different sizes. In Word 2003 and 2007, is there a way to vertically place the texts so that the baselines of the fonts will be at exactly the same height? Illustration: http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/6968/cells.gif The Wikipedia article about the baseline: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseline_(typography) I do not think that you can do that automatically. Different fonts and different font size use a different space below the base line for the space needed for "p", "q" , "j" etc. You will have to play with the cell internal margins manually, or paragraph space before/after, as I suspect you have been doing. -- ______________________________ Jean-Guy Marcil Montreal, Canada |
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I find that they align properly for me if I set the alignment to Bottom and
use the same Exact line spacing for all cells. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Jean-Guy Marcil" wrote in message ... pnumminen was telling us: pnumminen nous racontait que : Two adjacent cells contain text of different sizes. In Word 2003 and 2007, is there a way to vertically place the texts so that the baselines of the fonts will be at exactly the same height? Illustration: http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/6968/cells.gif The Wikipedia article about the baseline: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseline_(typography) I do not think that you can do that automatically. Different fonts and different font size use a different space below the base line for the space needed for "p", "q" , "j" etc. You will have to play with the cell internal margins manually, or paragraph space before/after, as I suspect you have been doing. -- ______________________________ Jean-Guy Marcil Montreal, Canada |
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Suzanne S. Barnhill was telling us:
Suzanne S. Barnhill nous racontait que : I find that they align properly for me if I set the alignment to Bottom and use the same Exact line spacing for all cells. Ah, yes, very good. I had not tried tweaking the Line Height And, of course, you have to make sure that there is enough space for the larger font descenders and ascenders to print without being cut off by using an exact Line Height that matches the largest font being used. Also, cell vertical alignment is irrelevant, as long as it is the same in all adjacent cells. So the key is the "Exact Line Height" setting ("At Least" won't work either.) There we go... another day goes by that teaches me something new about Word! -- ______________________________ Jean-Guy Marcil Montreal, Canada |
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On May 30, 12:35*am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
I find that they align properly for me if I set the alignment to Bottom and use the same Exact line spacing for all cells. Thanks. It worked when I changed the Line spacing option to "Exactly" at some number big enough, Cell Vertical alignment to Bottom, and the bottom cell margin to something appropriate. It took all three steps. |
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