I'm learning how to create an on-line form in Word 2000. I found a very good
tutorial on the internet at:

http://www.pserie.psu.edu/compcntr/guides/wordforms.pdf

I've worked on the sample excercise, paying very close attention to the
instructions as they are very detailed.

I've created the table, added field names and form fields etc. Now it's
time to do some individual formatting.

Everything has gone well until I got to the part about resizing individual
table cells. Even though the instructions didn't say to do so, I saved the
table after completing letter "e" at the top of page 11 of the document or
page 14 of the adobe document. (There are three "slush" pages at the
beginning of the document.) My form looks exactly like the illustration
towards to top of the page.

The instructions seem to imply that you can change the width of an
individual cell in the table without affecting the entire column width.

I've figured out that if there is a row that has merged cells in it, any
unmerged cells above it will apply the width to just those cells. The
problem is I can't seem to adjust the width for just one cell. When I try to
adjust just the right edge of a cell that's in the middle of three rows,
cells in all the three rows have the same adjusted width.

The illustration at the bottom of the page shows the middle row (Company
Name) as being expanded, while the same colum above and below it remain
unchanged.

How do I adjust the individual cell width without affecting other cells? I
can see that this is a very useful feature that would distinguish Word from
Excel when you create a form.

I hope this isn't too convoluted a question, but I wanted to give as much
background as possible.

I sincerely thank you for any help as this is driving me nuts.....

Fred

If you select the cell first, you should be able to drag its column boundary
independent of the other rows.

--
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
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"FAP" wrote in message
...
I'm learning how to create an on-line form in Word 2000. I found a very
good
tutorial on the internet at:

http://www.pserie.psu.edu/compcntr/guides/wordforms.pdf

I've worked on the sample excercise, paying very close attention to the
instructions as they are very detailed.

I've created the table, added field names and form fields etc. Now it's
time to do some individual formatting.

Everything has gone well until I got to the part about resizing individual
table cells. Even though the instructions didn't say to do so, I saved
the
table after completing letter "e" at the top of page 11 of the document or
page 14 of the adobe document. (There are three "slush" pages at the
beginning of the document.) My form looks exactly like the illustration
towards to top of the page.

The instructions seem to imply that you can change the width of an
individual cell in the table without affecting the entire column width.

I've figured out that if there is a row that has merged cells in it, any
unmerged cells above it will apply the width to just those cells. The
problem is I can't seem to adjust the width for just one cell. When I try
to
adjust just the right edge of a cell that's in the middle of three rows,
cells in all the three rows have the same adjusted width.

The illustration at the bottom of the page shows the middle row (Company
Name) as being expanded, while the same colum above and below it remain
unchanged.

How do I adjust the individual cell width without affecting other cells?
I
can see that this is a very useful feature that would distinguish Word
from
Excel when you create a form.

I hope this isn't too convoluted a question, but I wanted to give as much
background as possible.

I sincerely thank you for any help as this is driving me nuts.....

Fred

Thank you for your reply. The instructions I refered to said the same thing
you did. I did click within the cell to select it. I can see the insertion
point where I clicked. I then put the curser over the right border and it
changes to the double sided arrow. Click and drag the border to the right
and it still moves the cell border above and below it as well

When I move the border, a dotted vertical line appears that shows where I'm
moving the border to. There are also some things that pop up in the ruler
when I select the table that I'm not very familiar with. I moved them all
off to the side but the same thing still happens.

How do I know if I've properly selected the cell? I don't know what else to
do but to click inside of it. It doesn't "highllight" like when you select a
cell in Excel.

I wonder if there's some sort of global setting that would affect this.......

This is very frustrating. It shouldn't be this hard to do.

Thanks again,

Fred

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

If you select the cell first, you should be able to drag its column boundary
independent of the other rows.

--
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.

"FAP" wrote in message
...
I'm learning how to create an on-line form in Word 2000. I found a very
good
tutorial on the internet at:

http://www.pserie.psu.edu/compcntr/guides/wordforms.pdf

I've worked on the sample excercise, paying very close attention to the
instructions as they are very detailed.

I've created the table, added field names and form fields etc. Now it's
time to do some individual formatting.

Everything has gone well until I got to the part about resizing individual
table cells. Even though the instructions didn't say to do so, I saved
the
table after completing letter "e" at the top of page 11 of the document or
page 14 of the adobe document. (There are three "slush" pages at the
beginning of the document.) My form looks exactly like the illustration
towards to top of the page.

The instructions seem to imply that you can change the width of an
individual cell in the table without affecting the entire column width.

I've figured out that if there is a row that has merged cells in it, any
unmerged cells above it will apply the width to just those cells. The
problem is I can't seem to adjust the width for just one cell. When I try
to
adjust just the right edge of a cell that's in the middle of three rows,
cells in all the three rows have the same adjusted width.

The illustration at the bottom of the page shows the middle row (Company
Name) as being expanded, while the same colum above and below it remain
unchanged.

How do I adjust the individual cell width without affecting other cells?
I
can see that this is a very useful feature that would distinguish Word
from
Excel when you create a form.

I hope this isn't too convoluted a question, but I wanted to give as much
background as possible.

I sincerely thank you for any help as this is driving me nuts.....

Fred

Thanks for your reply. This is exactly what I did and it doesn't work. I
clicked within the cell and see the insertion point blinking. I move the
curser to the right border until it changes to the double sided arrow. I
click and drag to the right. As I do this a vertical dotted line appears,
showing where I'm moving the column to. This still moves the borders of all
three rows.

Could there be a global setting that would affect this? Also, there are
some things in the ruler that pop up when I select within the table. I move
them all off to either side but the same thing still happens.

Thanks for your help.

Fred
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

If you select the cell first, you should be able to drag its column boundary
independent of the other rows.

--
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.

"FAP" wrote in message
...
I'm learning how to create an on-line form in Word 2000. I found a very
good
tutorial on the internet at:

http://www.pserie.psu.edu/compcntr/guides/wordforms.pdf

I've worked on the sample excercise, paying very close attention to the
instructions as they are very detailed.

I've created the table, added field names and form fields etc. Now it's
time to do some individual formatting.

Everything has gone well until I got to the part about resizing individual
table cells. Even though the instructions didn't say to do so, I saved
the
table after completing letter "e" at the top of page 11 of the document or
page 14 of the adobe document. (There are three "slush" pages at the
beginning of the document.) My form looks exactly like the illustration
towards to top of the page.

The instructions seem to imply that you can change the width of an
individual cell in the table without affecting the entire column width.

I've figured out that if there is a row that has merged cells in it, any
unmerged cells above it will apply the width to just those cells. The
problem is I can't seem to adjust the width for just one cell. When I try
to
adjust just the right edge of a cell that's in the middle of three rows,
cells in all the three rows have the same adjusted width.

The illustration at the bottom of the page shows the middle row (Company
Name) as being expanded, while the same colum above and below it remain
unchanged.

How do I adjust the individual cell width without affecting other cells?
I
can see that this is a very useful feature that would distinguish Word
from
Excel when you create a form.

I hope this isn't too convoluted a question, but I wanted to give as much
background as possible.

I sincerely thank you for any help as this is driving me nuts.....

Fred

Triple-click inside the cell to select the cell.

FAP wrote:

Thank you for your reply. The instructions I refered to said the same thing
you did. I did click within the cell to select it. I can see the insertion
point where I clicked. I then put the curser over the right border and it
changes to the double sided arrow. Click and drag the border to the right
and it still moves the cell border above and below it as well

When I move the border, a dotted vertical line appears that shows where I'm
moving the border to. There are also some things that pop up in the ruler
when I select the table that I'm not very familiar with. I moved them all
off to the side but the same thing still happens.

How do I know if I've properly selected the cell? I don't know what else to
do but to click inside of it. It doesn't "highllight" like when you select a
cell in Excel.

I wonder if there's some sort of global setting that would affect this.......

This is very frustrating. It shouldn't be this hard to do.

Thanks again,

Fred

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:


If you select the cell first, you should be able to drag its column boundary
independent of the other rows.

--
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.

"FAP" wrote in message
...

I'm learning how to create an on-line form in Word 2000. I found a very

good

tutorial on the internet at:

http://www.pserie.psu.edu/compcntr/guides/wordforms.pdf

I've worked on the sample excercise, paying very close attention to the
instructions as they are very detailed.

I've created the table, added field names and form fields etc. Now it's
time to do some individual formatting.

Everything has gone well until I got to the part about resizing individual
table cells. Even though the instructions didn't say to do so, I saved

the

table after completing letter "e" at the top of page 11 of the document or
page 14 of the adobe document. (There are three "slush" pages at the
beginning of the document.) My form looks exactly like the illustration
towards to top of the page.

The instructions seem to imply that you can change the width of an
individual cell in the table without affecting the entire column width.

I've figured out that if there is a row that has merged cells in it, any
unmerged cells above it will apply the width to just those cells. The
problem is I can't seem to adjust the width for just one cell. When I try

to

adjust just the right edge of a cell that's in the middle of three rows,
cells in all the three rows have the same adjusted width.

The illustration at the bottom of the page shows the middle row (Company
Name) as being expanded, while the same colum above and below it remain
unchanged.

How do I adjust the individual cell width without affecting other cells?

I

can see that this is a very useful feature that would distinguish Word

from

Excel when you create a form.

I hope this isn't too convoluted a question, but I wanted to give as much
background as possible.

I sincerely thank you for any help as this is driving me nuts.....

Fred

I didn't know about the triple click thing.....

THANK YOU!!!

Fred


"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

Triple-click inside the cell to select the cell.

FAP wrote:

Thank you for your reply. The instructions I refered to said the same thing
you did. I did click within the cell to select it. I can see the insertion
point where I clicked. I then put the curser over the right border and it
changes to the double sided arrow. Click and drag the border to the right
and it still moves the cell border above and below it as well

When I move the border, a dotted vertical line appears that shows where I'm
moving the border to. There are also some things that pop up in the ruler
when I select the table that I'm not very familiar with. I moved them all
off to the side but the same thing still happens.

How do I know if I've properly selected the cell? I don't know what else to
do but to click inside of it. It doesn't "highllight" like when you select a
cell in Excel.

I wonder if there's some sort of global setting that would affect this.......

This is very frustrating. It shouldn't be this hard to do.

Thanks again,

Fred

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:


If you select the cell first, you should be able to drag its column boundary
independent of the other rows.

--
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.

"FAP" wrote in message
...

I'm learning how to create an on-line form in Word 2000. I found a very

good

tutorial on the internet at:

http://www.pserie.psu.edu/compcntr/guides/wordforms.pdf

I've worked on the sample excercise, paying very close attention to the
instructions as they are very detailed.

I've created the table, added field names and form fields etc. Now it's
time to do some individual formatting.

Everything has gone well until I got to the part about resizing individual
table cells. Even though the instructions didn't say to do so, I saved

the

table after completing letter "e" at the top of page 11 of the document or
page 14 of the adobe document. (There are three "slush" pages at the
beginning of the document.) My form looks exactly like the illustration
towards to top of the page.

The instructions seem to imply that you can change the width of an
individual cell in the table without affecting the entire column width.

I've figured out that if there is a row that has merged cells in it, any
unmerged cells above it will apply the width to just those cells. The
problem is I can't seem to adjust the width for just one cell. When I try

to

adjust just the right edge of a cell that's in the middle of three rows,
cells in all the three rows have the same adjusted width.

The illustration at the bottom of the page shows the middle row (Company
Name) as being expanded, while the same colum above and below it remain
unchanged.

How do I adjust the individual cell width without affecting other cells?

I

can see that this is a very useful feature that would distinguish Word

from

Excel when you create a form.

I hope this isn't too convoluted a question, but I wanted to give as much
background as possible.

I sincerely thank you for any help as this is driving me nuts.....

Fred

You can also select by pointing to the cell from the left, the way you would
to select a line of ordinary text.

--
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.

"FAP" wrote in message
...
I didn't know about the triple click thing.....

THANK YOU!!!

Fred


"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

Triple-click inside the cell to select the cell.

FAP wrote:

Thank you for your reply. The instructions I refered to said the same
thing
you did. I did click within the cell to select it. I can see the
insertion
point where I clicked. I then put the curser over the right border
and it
changes to the double sided arrow. Click and drag the border to the
right
and it still moves the cell border above and below it as well

When I move the border, a dotted vertical line appears that shows
where I'm
moving the border to. There are also some things that pop up in the
ruler
when I select the table that I'm not very familiar with. I moved them
all
off to the side but the same thing still happens.

How do I know if I've properly selected the cell? I don't know what
else to
do but to click inside of it. It doesn't "highllight" like when you
select a
cell in Excel.

I wonder if there's some sort of global setting that would affect
this.......

This is very frustrating. It shouldn't be this hard to do.

Thanks again,

Fred

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:


If you select the cell first, you should be able to drag its column
boundary
independent of the other rows.

--
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.

"FAP" wrote in message
...

I'm learning how to create an on-line form in Word 2000. I found a
very

good

tutorial on the internet at:

http://www.pserie.psu.edu/compcntr/guides/wordforms.pdf

I've worked on the sample excercise, paying very close attention to
the
instructions as they are very detailed.

I've created the table, added field names and form fields etc. Now
it's
time to do some individual formatting.

Everything has gone well until I got to the part about resizing
individual
table cells. Even though the instructions didn't say to do so, I
saved

the

table after completing letter "e" at the top of page 11 of the
document or
page 14 of the adobe document. (There are three "slush" pages at the
beginning of the document.) My form looks exactly like the
illustration
towards to top of the page.

The instructions seem to imply that you can change the width of an
individual cell in the table without affecting the entire column
width.

I've figured out that if there is a row that has merged cells in it,
any
unmerged cells above it will apply the width to just those cells.
The
problem is I can't seem to adjust the width for just one cell. When
I try

to

adjust just the right edge of a cell that's in the middle of three
rows,
cells in all the three rows have the same adjusted width.

The illustration at the bottom of the page shows the middle row
(Company
Name) as being expanded, while the same colum above and below it
remain
unchanged.

How do I adjust the individual cell width without affecting other
cells?

I

can see that this is a very useful feature that would distinguish
Word

from

Excel when you create a form.

I hope this isn't too convoluted a question, but I wanted to give as
much
background as possible.

I sincerely thank you for any help as this is driving me nuts.....

Fred