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I have a word table that is currently legal size and I need to attach it to
another document that is letter size. I cannot get it to reduce to letter
size. What might I be doing wrong?
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Have you changed the paper size in Page Setup?

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I have a word table that is currently legal size and I need to attach it to
another document that is letter size. I cannot get it to reduce to letter
size. What might I be doing wrong?


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Also have you looked that the Table Properties? If the table is defined to be
a certain specific width (measured in inches or centimeters depending on your
settings) rather than a percentage, when you paste it into your letter size
page it will retain those exact measurements - even if it runs over the
margins. Change the width of the table and you should be sweet.
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Have you changed the paper size in Page Setup?

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I have a word table that is currently legal size and I need to attach it to
another document that is letter size. I cannot get it to reduce to letter
size. What might I be doing wrong?



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He means length ... down in Gordon's hemisphere, they size paper with
those numbers (A4, etc.) but legal is just letter-size paper that's
14" instead of 8.5" long.

Things you could do to shorten it include reducing the font size,
reducing the cell top & bottom borders to 0 (that's the "Options"
button in the Table Properties panel, under either "Table" or "Cell"),
and changing the Paragraph Spacing to Exactly some smaller number than
it is.

On Jun 29, 10:21*pm, Gordon Bentley-Mix on news.microsoft.com gordon
(dot)bentleymix(at)gmail(dot)com wrote:
Also have you looked that the Table Properties? If the table is defined to be
a certain specific width (measured in inches or centimeters depending on your
settings) rather than a percentage, when you paste it into your letter size
page it will retain those exact measurements - even if it runs over the
margins. Change the width of the table and you should be sweet.
--
Cheers!

Gordon Bentley-Mix
Word MVP

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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Have you changed the paper size in Page Setup?


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I have a word table that is currently legal size and I need to attach it to
another document that is letter size. *I cannot get it to reduce to letter
size. *What might I be doing wrong?-

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Indeed. I overlooked the information that this was a table (and quite
possibly in Landscape orientation).

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Also have you looked that the Table Properties? If the table is defined to
be
a certain specific width (measured in inches or centimeters depending on
your
settings) rather than a percentage, when you paste it into your letter
size
page it will retain those exact measurements - even if it runs over the
margins. Change the width of the table and you should be sweet.
--
Cheers!

Gordon Bentley-Mix
Word MVP

Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup.

Read the original version of this post in the Office Discussion Groups -
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membership required!


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Have you changed the paper size in Page Setup?

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Bridget" wrote in message
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I have a word table that is currently legal size and I need to attach it
to
another document that is letter size. I cannot get it to reduce to
letter
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I figured maybe Gordon was assuming (rather astutely, actually) that the
table might be broadside (i.e., the paper in landscape orientation), in
which case a table sized for Letter (11") would not automatically expand to
fit 14" paper unless the width were set to 100%.

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"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message
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He means length ... down in Gordon's hemisphere, they size paper with
those numbers (A4, etc.) but legal is just letter-size paper that's
14" instead of 8.5" long.

Things you could do to shorten it include reducing the font size,
reducing the cell top & bottom borders to 0 (that's the "Options"
button in the Table Properties panel, under either "Table" or "Cell"),
and changing the Paragraph Spacing to Exactly some smaller number than
it is.

On Jun 29, 10:21 pm, Gordon Bentley-Mix on news.microsoft.com gordon
(dot)bentleymix(at)gmail(dot)com wrote:
Also have you looked that the Table Properties? If the table is defined to
be
a certain specific width (measured in inches or centimeters depending on
your
settings) rather than a percentage, when you paste it into your letter
size
page it will retain those exact measurements - even if it runs over the
margins. Change the width of the table and you should be sweet.
--
Cheers!

Gordon Bentley-Mix
Word MVP

Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup.

Read the original version of this post in the Office Discussion Groups -
no
membership required!



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Have you changed the paper size in Page Setup?


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