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MS Office Forum / Word / Programming / February 2006Limiting the size of a table to a half of a regular page
Does anyone know of an efficient way to create a table of a certain size and be able to prevent the size to be altered? Any help with this will be greatly appretiated. Carmen Don't even know an INefficient way to do this. What is the end to which such table control is the means? > Does anyone know of an efficient way to create a table of a certain size > and [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Carmen Hi =?Utf-8?B?Q2FybWVu?=, > Does anyone know of an efficient way to create a table of a certain size and > be able to prevent the size to be altered? What's possible depends a lot on the version of Word, and what other kind of editing should be possible in the document. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Thank you for your responses. I need to allow a specific amount of text on a page (1/2 of a page) for a specific section. Many thanks, Carmen > Hi =?Utf-8?B?Q2FybWVu?=, > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply > in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) You've already told us that. We need to know -- what version of Word? what you mean by 'specific amount of text' -- specific number of words? specific number of column-centimeters in a given font and size? what you mean by 'allow' -- physically prevent any more text than that? encourage the user not to exceed it? whether any editing is permitted elsewhere in the document. > Thank you for your responses. > I need to allow a specific amount of text on a page (1/2 of a page) for a [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] >> reply >> in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Word 2000, and it should be half of a 8 1/2" by 11" wih a 1/2" margin all around in font size 9. There is a heading that preceeds this section and it is followed by Next Page Section Break. I have it in two columns but it continues to flow on the next page and the same thing when I placed the columns in a table. After this conversation, my question should probably be, can we control the size of a specific section in Word 2000? Thank you for you assistance, Carmen > You've already told us that. We need to know -- > [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > >> reply > >> in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Depends what you mean by 'control' ... > Word 2000, and it should be half of a 8 1/2" by 11" wih a 1/2" margin all > around in font size 9. [quoted text clipped - 52 lines] >> >> reply >> >> in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Hi =?Utf-8?B?Q2FybWVu?=, > Word 2000, and it should be half of a 8 1/2" by 11" wih a 1/2" margin all > around in font size 9. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > conversation, my question should probably be, can we control the size of a > specific section in Word 2000? Set the column widths and row heights to exact measurements. They could contain more text, but the table won't grow... Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Limiting anything is either hard or impossible if the application is intended to allow end users to do what they want. In this case, you could consider enabling the Control toolbox and inserting 2 fixed size textboxes with some spaces in between, and setting their properties so that "multiline" is true. Then switch out of "Design mode" and save the document. Problems include: a. IME using controls this way in a Word document is slow and crash-prone b. you may not be able to prevent your users from adjusting the size of the textboxes, or deleting them, anyway c. there's no automatic text flow between one control and the next. d. users just get to type in the font you specified, with right, left, or centred formatting. No other formatting, no justified text etc. Peter Jamieson > Does anyone know of an efficient way to create a table of a certain size > and [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Carmen |
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