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Default Alignment problem in tables AND inconsistent icons in the rule

Dealing with tables is always a challenge because you often have to examine
every single cell (and every paragraph in each cell) to find the obscure,
subtle setting that is causing the problem.

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

"Pierre" wrote in message
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Thank you. That did the trick. Thanks to all for responding.

I don't understand why that particular table got different settings.

Pierre

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Settings set for specific cells will also override the table default.

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

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP on news.microsoft.com"
wrote in message ...
Check the paragraph formatting in the problem table to ensure that it
does
not have a negative indent. Such an indent will over-ride the cell
margins.

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

"Pierre" wrote in message
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I'm using Word 2003 SP3.

I am using a user-defined style for the rows of my tables. The style
is
based on no style.

In most of my tables, my text looks fine...meaning that there is an
adequate
amount of space between the beginning of the column and the beginning
of
the
text. I didn't define the space.

In another table, the beginning of the text touches the beginning of
the
column, meaning, there is no space.

I tried doing Table Table Properties followed by clicking the Table
tab

Options.
Under Default cell margins. It doesn't matter what number I enter,
nothing
changes.

In the tables that look good, the Default cell margins is set to 0.08.

In both cases, Automatically resize to fit contents is not selected.