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Cells in a Word 2007 table do not grow in length; text disappears
Hello,
In MS Word 2007, I am working with a document that someone else created. There is a table in the document, and when I add text to the cells in the table, the cells do not get longer to display the text when the text reaches the bottom of the cell. Instead, the text and cursor seem to disappear behind the next cell down in the column (it goes behind the cell that is immediately below the cell that I'm typing in). How do I fix this so that the length of the cell will change as text is added to it? I want the cells to be a fixed width, but get longer if they have to to accomodate whatever text is typed in them. Thanks |
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Cells in a Word 2007 table do not grow in length; text disappears
Select the whole table, go to the Table Layout tab Properties
Rows, and uncheck the Specify Height Exactly option. On Jan 8, 11:10*pm, MDR wrote: Hello, In MS Word 2007, I am working with a document that someone else created. There is a table in the document, and when I add text to the cells in the table, the cells do not get longer to display the text when the text reaches the bottom of the cell. Instead, the text and cursor seem to disappear behind the next cell down in the column (it goes behind the cell that is immediately below the cell that I'm typing in). How do I fix this so that the length of the cell will change as text is added to it? I want the cells to be a fixed width, but get longer if they have to to accomodate whatever text is typed in them. Thanks |
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Cells in a Word 2007 table do not grow in length; text disappears
Also, be aware that authors sometimes set exact row heights
deliberately to prevent you from typing "too much" in the table or messing up the layout of a form. I don't know whether that's the case here. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 21:22:17 -0800 (PST), "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: Select the whole table, go to the Table Layout tab Properties Rows, and uncheck the Specify Height Exactly option. On Jan 8, 11:10*pm, MDR wrote: Hello, In MS Word 2007, I am working with a document that someone else created. There is a table in the document, and when I add text to the cells in the table, the cells do not get longer to display the text when the text reaches the bottom of the cell. Instead, the text and cursor seem to disappear behind the next cell down in the column (it goes behind the cell that is immediately below the cell that I'm typing in). How do I fix this so that the length of the cell will change as text is added to it? I want the cells to be a fixed width, but get longer if they have to to accomodate whatever text is typed in them. Thanks |
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