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MS Office Forum / Word / Long Documents / November 2003setting table size
I have a table in a doc that shouldn't change size. Lots of people edit copies of the doc. They change the size by adding too much text in the table. Is there a way I can specifiy the table size so when they type too much text into it they get an error message or their text runs out of view or something? Thanks Right click the table, select table properties, set the properties. > I have a table in a doc that shouldn't change size. Lots of people edit > copies of the doc. They change the size by adding too much text in the > table. Is there a way I can specifiy the table size so when they type too > much text into it they get an error message or their text runs out of view > or something? > Thanks There isn't an option that would prevent theperson entering text from entering a lot of text and making the table resize to fit it. Maybe I'm not explaining it right. Imagine a table that has 10 rows and is 4 inches tall on a printed page. I want the users to be able to add text as long as thetable is not allowed to be more than 4 inches tall on a printed page. Some of the users keep adding text until the table takes up nearly a full page. The font size can't change. Less than 4 inches is OK, more is bad. Thanks > Right click the table, select table properties, set the properties. > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > or something? > > Thanks You could put the table in a text box or frame with 4" height (with auto resizing of the text box turned off). On balance, a frame would be preferable (set height to Exactly 4"). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word)  SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > There isn't an option that would prevent theperson entering text from > entering a lot of text and making the table resize to fit it. Maybe I'm not [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > > or something? > > > Thanks Hi Sherry, > There isn't an option that would prevent theperson entering text > from entering a lot of text and making the table resize to fit it. true, but you can give the table cell a fixed height: The user can still enter as much text as (s)he likes, but the cell won't grow and hence the "mean" lines just don't show up ... Greetinx .bob ..Word-MVP ...and I really think .longdocs is not really appropriate here :-) Signature/"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / X Against HTML / \ in e-mail & news This would be great except the number of rows in the table may vary. The last row in the table is for a picture that varies in sze. This wasa great idea, though. Sorry - I wasn't clear enough in describing my problem. I'm still trying to think of a way to make it work. > Hi Sherry, > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > X Against HTML > / \ in e-mail & news |
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