Borders or no borders, the table will still shift-- granted that when there
are no borders, the shift is less.. thanks for your reply. That insight has
me looking at this from a different perspective. Your help is greatly
appreciated.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Do these merged cells have borders?
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"zebro" wrote in message
...
You'll note that, as I explained, I am merging these original 4 pt. rows
to
create larger rows -- I start off with smaller rows so that I can create
columns with different numbers of rows in the same table and each column
still ends up the same height. Perhaps I'm making this harder than I need
to, but I still need an answer to my original question, which is.. Why,
when
I merge cells in my last column, does the whole table expand vertically by
a
few pixels? Thanks in advance for any help...
"Jezebel" wrote:
You're creating a table that's too complex for Word to deal with
comfortably.
What are you actually trying to achieve with this zany layout? Not a
table,
obviously, because you can't put any text in a 4 point row.
"zebro" wrote in message
...
I have 20 rows in a table with 3 columns set exactly at a height of 4
points.
I merge 4 rows in the first column 5 times to create Five rows, each
the
same size as the four original rows. Everything is okay. I merge 5
rows
in
the 2nd column 4 times to create 4 rows, each the same size as the
five
original rows and everything stays okay. When I go to merge any
number of
rows in the third column, it causes my entire table to increase in
size
3-10
pixels, throwing off the document layout--
I've tried this on several computers with the same result to rule out
a
bad
Office install, or changed settings.
What's going on? Is there something I'm doing wrong? Any help would
be
greatly appreciated.