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Old April 28th, 2010, 12:46 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
Jay
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Default Cell Padding or Margins Within a Table

Greetings! I have a table with many cells containing text. The text is not
flush against the left border of the cells; there is reasonable space with
the text left-aligned. When I insert cells (a row at a time) into the table
and add text, that text is flush against the left border. All the text
settings appear the same. When I click within the original cells and check
the tab ruler, I see the indent sliders are just to the right of the blue
"partitions"; when I click within the cells I added, the sliders appear right
on the "partitions" and won't allow me to slide them to the left. I can't
move them in the Paragraph dialog box either.

Any suggestions?
Thanks,
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Old April 28th, 2010, 01:16 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Default Cell Padding or Margins Within a Table

Have you checked the cell margins in the Table Properties (Cell Options)?

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"Jay" wrote in message
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Greetings! I have a table with many cells containing text. The text is
not
flush against the left border of the cells; there is reasonable space with
the text left-aligned. When I insert cells (a row at a time) into the
table
and add text, that text is flush against the left border. All the text
settings appear the same. When I click within the original cells and
check
the tab ruler, I see the indent sliders are just to the right of the blue
"partitions"; when I click within the cells I added, the sliders appear
right
on the "partitions" and won't allow me to slide them to the left. I can't
move them in the Paragraph dialog box either.

Any suggestions?
Thanks,


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Old April 28th, 2010, 02:28 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
Jay
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Default Cell Padding or Margins Within a Table

Once again, Ms. Barnhill, you have saved my bacon. When I selected the
entire table and looked at the cell properties, the margins were blank. I
checked off the "Same as the whole table", but no changes happened. When I
selected a range of cells and looked at the cell properties, they were zeros.
I typed in the margins from a cell with "good" spacing, and it worked like a
charm. Thanks again!!
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Old April 28th, 2010, 04:12 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Default Cell Padding or Margins Within a Table

I'm glad that helped. I find that often you have to drill down to get
meaningful results (selecting an entire table/document just returns
garbage).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Jay" wrote in message
...
Once again, Ms. Barnhill, you have saved my bacon. When I selected the
entire table and looked at the cell properties, the margins were blank. I
checked off the "Same as the whole table", but no changes happened. When
I
selected a range of cells and looked at the cell properties, they were
zeros.
I typed in the margins from a cell with "good" spacing, and it worked like
a
charm. Thanks again!!


 




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