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Blank spaces between rows
Good day,
Please help me! Someone sent me this problem: it is a document containing several rows with blank, totally blank spaces between each row (no paragrahp marks, etc.). When I go to Table, Select Table, it selects all the rows, as if they were part of the same table. Yet, I don't how to make them "stick together", i.e. get rid of all blank spaces. Using XP, Word 2003. Could it have been structured as a Web document? When I "reveal formatting", nothing indicates that it was structured as a Web document. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. |
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Some things to check:
1. Does the text have any Space After and/or Space Before? Look in FormatParagraph, Indents and Spacing tab. If it does, change the values to 0. 2. Is line spacing set to something other than Single? Again, this is found on the Indents and Spacing tab of the FormatParagraph dialog box. 3. Are the table rows formatted with a minimum or exact height? Look in TableTable PropertiesRow tab. Is "Specify height" selected and "Row height is" set to Exactly or At least? Clear the check mark next to "Specify height", or decrease the value (depending on what you want). 4. Choose FilePage Setup. Click the Layout tab. Make sure that Vertical alignment is set to "Top". -- Stefan Blom "Hélène" wrote in message ... Good day, Please help me! Someone sent me this problem: it is a document containing several rows with blank, totally blank spaces between each row (no paragrahp marks, etc.). When I go to Table, Select Table, it selects all the rows, as if they were part of the same table. Yet, I don't how to make them "stick together", i.e. get rid of all blank spaces. Using XP, Word 2003. Could it have been structured as a Web document? When I "reveal formatting", nothing indicates that it was structured as a Web document. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. |
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Stefan,
Thank you for replying so quickly. I have checked every item on your checklist and everything is normal. No special parameters or anything... Do you have any other suggestions? Hélène "Stefan Blom" wrote: Some things to check: 1. Does the text have any Space After and/or Space Before? Look in FormatParagraph, Indents and Spacing tab. If it does, change the values to 0. 2. Is line spacing set to something other than Single? Again, this is found on the Indents and Spacing tab of the FormatParagraph dialog box. 3. Are the table rows formatted with a minimum or exact height? Look in TableTable PropertiesRow tab. Is "Specify height" selected and "Row height is" set to Exactly or At least? Clear the check mark next to "Specify height", or decrease the value (depending on what you want). 4. Choose FilePage Setup. Click the Layout tab. Make sure that Vertical alignment is set to "Top". -- Stefan Blom "Hélène" wrote in message ... Good day, Please help me! Someone sent me this problem: it is a document containing several rows with blank, totally blank spaces between each row (no paragrahp marks, etc.). When I go to Table, Select Table, it selects all the rows, as if they were part of the same table. Yet, I don't how to make them "stick together", i.e. get rid of all blank spaces. Using XP, Word 2003. Could it have been structured as a Web document? When I "reveal formatting", nothing indicates that it was structured as a Web document. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. |
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My best guess on this: the intervening spaces *are* table rows. The text has
been formatted as Font Color: White, so that even if you display nonprinting characters, you will see nothing. Possible white borders have been applied as well so that you don't see table gridlines or text boundaries. If you can place the insertion point in the space between rows, then there is "text" there (an empty paragraph at least). If you *can* place the IP there, try looking at Reveal Formatting. -- 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. "Hélène" wrote in message ... Good day, Please help me! Someone sent me this problem: it is a document containing several rows with blank, totally blank spaces between each row (no paragrahp marks, etc.). When I go to Table, Select Table, it selects all the rows, as if they were part of the same table. Yet, I don't how to make them "stick together", i.e. get rid of all blank spaces. Using XP, Word 2003. Could it have been structured as a Web document? When I "reveal formatting", nothing indicates that it was structured as a Web document. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. |
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Suzanne,
Thank you for the reply. That's what I tried too and, no can do; the space between each row is inaccessible. If I "view" the document in "Web Layout", then the rows are all attached together. But even then I cannot do a thing to change the format. What's wrong with this document? Could it have been created as an html document in the first place? Hélène "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: My best guess on this: the intervening spaces *are* table rows. The text has been formatted as Font Color: White, so that even if you display nonprinting characters, you will see nothing. Possible white borders have been applied as well so that you don't see table gridlines or text boundaries. If you can place the insertion point in the space between rows, then there is "text" there (an empty paragraph at least). If you *can* place the IP there, try looking at Reveal Formatting. -- 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. "Hélène" wrote in message ... Good day, Please help me! Someone sent me this problem: it is a document containing several rows with blank, totally blank spaces between each row (no paragrahp marks, etc.). When I go to Table, Select Table, it selects all the rows, as if they were part of the same table. Yet, I don't how to make them "stick together", i.e. get rid of all blank spaces. Using XP, Word 2003. Could it have been structured as a Web document? When I "reveal formatting", nothing indicates that it was structured as a Web document. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. |
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Possibly the tables are nested within another table? Perhaps the white
spaces are part of a cell border that includes white space? -- 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. "Hélène" wrote in message ... Suzanne, Thank you for the reply. That's what I tried too and, no can do; the space between each row is inaccessible. If I "view" the document in "Web Layout", then the rows are all attached together. But even then I cannot do a thing to change the format. What's wrong with this document? Could it have been created as an html document in the first place? Hélène "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: My best guess on this: the intervening spaces *are* table rows. The text has been formatted as Font Color: White, so that even if you display nonprinting characters, you will see nothing. Possible white borders have been applied as well so that you don't see table gridlines or text boundaries. If you can place the insertion point in the space between rows, then there is "text" there (an empty paragraph at least). If you *can* place the IP there, try looking at Reveal Formatting. -- 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. "Hélène" wrote in message ... Good day, Please help me! Someone sent me this problem: it is a document containing several rows with blank, totally blank spaces between each row (no paragrahp marks, etc.). When I go to Table, Select Table, it selects all the rows, as if they were part of the same table. Yet, I don't how to make them "stick together", i.e. get rid of all blank spaces. Using XP, Word 2003. Could it have been structured as a Web document? When I "reveal formatting", nothing indicates that it was structured as a Web document. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. |
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Suzanne,
Again thank you for your help. I looked at everything single thing and there is no way we can change that table. It was either copied from the Net or created in WordPerfect. Hélène "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Possibly the tables are nested within another table? Perhaps the white spaces are part of a cell border that includes white space? -- 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. "Hélène" wrote in message ... Suzanne, Thank you for the reply. That's what I tried too and, no can do; the space between each row is inaccessible. If I "view" the document in "Web Layout", then the rows are all attached together. But even then I cannot do a thing to change the format. What's wrong with this document? Could it have been created as an html document in the first place? Hélène "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: My best guess on this: the intervening spaces *are* table rows. The text has been formatted as Font Color: White, so that even if you display nonprinting characters, you will see nothing. Possible white borders have been applied as well so that you don't see table gridlines or text boundaries. If you can place the insertion point in the space between rows, then there is "text" there (an empty paragraph at least). If you *can* place the IP there, try looking at Reveal Formatting. -- 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. "Hélène" wrote in message ... Good day, Please help me! Someone sent me this problem: it is a document containing several rows with blank, totally blank spaces between each row (no paragrahp marks, etc.). When I go to Table, Select Table, it selects all the rows, as if they were part of the same table. Yet, I don't how to make them "stick together", i.e. get rid of all blank spaces. Using XP, Word 2003. Could it have been structured as a Web document? When I "reveal formatting", nothing indicates that it was structured as a Web document. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. |
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Sometimes the better part of valor is just to give up and convert the table
to text and back again (if that works) or create a new table and laboriously copy/paste the contents into it. It would, of course, be more satisfying to get to the bottom of the mystery. If you'd like to send me a small sample of the problem table, I'll be happy to look at it. Send it to sbarnhill (at) mvps (dot) org. -- 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. "Hélène" wrote in message ... Suzanne, Again thank you for your help. I looked at everything single thing and there is no way we can change that table. It was either copied from the Net or created in WordPerfect. Hélène "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Possibly the tables are nested within another table? Perhaps the white spaces are part of a cell border that includes white space? -- 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. "Hélène" wrote in message ... Suzanne, Thank you for the reply. That's what I tried too and, no can do; the space between each row is inaccessible. If I "view" the document in "Web Layout", then the rows are all attached together. But even then I cannot do a thing to change the format. What's wrong with this document? Could it have been created as an html document in the first place? Hélène "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: My best guess on this: the intervening spaces *are* table rows. The text has been formatted as Font Color: White, so that even if you display nonprinting characters, you will see nothing. Possible white borders have been applied as well so that you don't see table gridlines or text boundaries. If you can place the insertion point in the space between rows, then there is "text" there (an empty paragraph at least). If you *can* place the IP there, try looking at Reveal Formatting. -- 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. "Hélène" wrote in message ... Good day, Please help me! Someone sent me this problem: it is a document containing several rows with blank, totally blank spaces between each row (no paragrahp marks, etc.). When I go to Table, Select Table, it selects all the rows, as if they were part of the same table. Yet, I don't how to make them "stick together", i.e. get rid of all blank spaces. Using XP, Word 2003. Could it have been structured as a Web document? When I "reveal formatting", nothing indicates that it was structured as a Web document. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. |
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Suzanne,
I just sent it to you. Thank you! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Sometimes the better part of valor is just to give up and convert the table to text and back again (if that works) or create a new table and laboriously copy/paste the contents into it. It would, of course, be more satisfying to get to the bottom of the mystery. If you'd like to send me a small sample of the problem table, I'll be happy to look at it. Send it to sbarnhill (at) mvps (dot) org. -- 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. "Hélène" wrote in message ... Suzanne, Again thank you for your help. I looked at everything single thing and there is no way we can change that table. It was either copied from the Net or created in WordPerfect. Hélène "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Possibly the tables are nested within another table? Perhaps the white spaces are part of a cell border that includes white space? -- 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. "Hélène" wrote in message ... Suzanne, Thank you for the reply. That's what I tried too and, no can do; the space between each row is inaccessible. If I "view" the document in "Web Layout", then the rows are all attached together. But even then I cannot do a thing to change the format. What's wrong with this document? Could it have been created as an html document in the first place? Hélène "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: My best guess on this: the intervening spaces *are* table rows. The text has been formatted as Font Color: White, so that even if you display nonprinting characters, you will see nothing. Possible white borders have been applied as well so that you don't see table gridlines or text boundaries. If you can place the insertion point in the space between rows, then there is "text" there (an empty paragraph at least). If you *can* place the IP there, try looking at Reveal Formatting. -- 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. "Hélène" wrote in message ... Good day, Please help me! Someone sent me this problem: it is a document containing several rows with blank, totally blank spaces between each row (no paragrahp marks, etc.). When I go to Table, Select Table, it selects all the rows, as if they were part of the same table. Yet, I don't how to make them "stick together", i.e. get rid of all blank spaces. Using XP, Word 2003. Could it have been structured as a Web document? When I "reveal formatting", nothing indicates that it was structured as a Web document. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. |
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To report back to the group, it turned out that the spaces between the rows
must be some sort of graphic (or at least something in the drawing layer). They show up only in Print Layout view or Print Preview, and clearing the check boxes for "Drawings" on the View tab of Tools | Options and for "Drawing objects" on the Print tab make them disappear from those view as well. The second of each pair of rows contained a { PRIVATE "TYPE=PICT;ALT=" } field that was apparently generating these graphics, judging from the fact that deleting these fields made the mysterious space disappear. -- 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. "Hélène" wrote in message ... Suzanne, I just sent it to you. Thank you! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Sometimes the better part of valor is just to give up and convert the table to text and back again (if that works) or create a new table and laboriously copy/paste the contents into it. It would, of course, be more satisfying to get to the bottom of the mystery. If you'd like to send me a small sample of the problem table, I'll be happy to look at it. Send it to sbarnhill (at) mvps (dot) org. -- 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. "Hélène" wrote in message ... Suzanne, Again thank you for your help. I looked at everything single thing and there is no way we can change that table. It was either copied from the Net or created in WordPerfect. Hélène "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Possibly the tables are nested within another table? Perhaps the white spaces are part of a cell border that includes white space? -- 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. "Hélène" wrote in message ... Suzanne, Thank you for the reply. That's what I tried too and, no can do; the space between each row is inaccessible. If I "view" the document in "Web Layout", then the rows are all attached together. But even then I cannot do a thing to change the format. What's wrong with this document? Could it have been created as an html document in the first place? Hélène "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: My best guess on this: the intervening spaces *are* table rows. The text has been formatted as Font Color: White, so that even if you display nonprinting characters, you will see nothing. Possible white borders have been applied as well so that you don't see table gridlines or text boundaries. If you can place the insertion point in the space between rows, then there is "text" there (an empty paragraph at least). If you *can* place the IP there, try looking at Reveal Formatting. -- 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. "Hélène" wrote in message ... Good day, Please help me! Someone sent me this problem: it is a document containing several rows with blank, totally blank spaces between each row (no paragrahp marks, etc.). When I go to Table, Select Table, it selects all the rows, as if they were part of the same table. Yet, I don't how to make them "stick together", i.e. get rid of all blank spaces. Using XP, Word 2003. Could it have been structured as a Web document? When I "reveal formatting", nothing indicates that it was structured as a Web document. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. |
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