As far as I remember, I also tried applying different Space Before/After
previously in order to find out whether this could trigger white space. I
just tried it again and for me the cells were fully shaded regardless of
whether I applied the shading to the cells or to the paragraphs. However, my
test does not guarantee anything - there may be combinations where the result
would be white space anyway.
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Lene Fredborg
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Another thing that can make a difference IIRC is having Space Before/After
applied to some, but not all, of the paragraphs in the row.
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"Lene Fredborg" wrote in message
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Things you can check:
A. The "Apply to" field in Format Borders and Shading Shading tab must
be set to "Cell" in order for the shading to always fill out the selected
cell(s).
Could it be that "Apply to" has been set to e.g. "Paragraph" in the
cell(s)
with white space? This will result in white space above and/or below the
text
if you have applied space above and/or below the text in Format
Paragraph.
In addition, if you have applied cell margins (Table Table Properties
Table tab Options), you will see white space along the sides with
margins.
If A. is not the problem:
B. Do you have different bottom cell margins applied to the cells in the
row
with the problem? This seems to result in white space at the bottom of
cells
even it you apply the shading to the cells. For example, if one cell in a
row
has 1mm bottom cell margin whereas the other cells have no bottom cell
margin, those cells will have 1mm white space at the bottom (i.e. only the
cell(s) with the largest bottom margin will be totally filled - other
cells
will have a white space corresponding to the difference between the bottom
cell margins). For some reason, the same does not seem to apply if you
have
different top cell margins (at least I did not see any white space in the
top
of cells when testing in Word 2002 and 2003).
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Lene Fredborg
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"editor" wrote:
I have windows xp withword 2003. I have tried every suggestion from the
help
menue, however, I cannot get rid of the white streak at the bottom of
one
cell after colour shading the whole table - I have coloured blocks of
rows
with different colours. It was fine until I split this cell.