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getting text to automatically move to the next cell.
I have a table within a document where we need to type a lenthy narrative. Is there a way to automatically get text to start in the next cell when a cell if full? Do you have to tab everytime?
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getting text to automatically move to the next cell.
A table cell is by definition never "full" if the height is set to Auto (the
default) and especially if Autofit to Contents is enabled. I suspect you're trying to do something with this table that a table isn't designed to do. Possibly what you really want is newspaper-style columns (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/UsingColumns.htm). More probably you're creating a form and trying to use bottom cell borders to simulate fill-in-the-blanks lines. Unfortunately, Word tables just don't work that way. If you insist on having these lines (not really necessary in a form created on and printed from a computer), you'll have to use drawing lines; see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms.htm -- 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. "parapist" wrote in message ... I have a table within a document where we need to type a lenthy narrative. Is there a way to automatically get text to start in the next cell when a cell if full? Do you have to tab everytime? |
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getting text to automatically move to the next cell.
In reference to using drawing lines, I've never had much success with that
method because of problems with variable paragraph spacing, etc. The method I use is to set a right-aligned tab on the right margin, tab several times to create multiple lines, and then apply underline to the tabs. When the user tabs into the cell, they can either start typing to replace the lines with their own underlined text, or start typing at the beginning of the cell and then delete the extraneous tabs. If this is needed in an online form, I use a macro to capture the underlined tabs in a variable and insert a form field with its default text set to the value of the variable. Regards, Chad DeMeyer "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... A table cell is by definition never "full" if the height is set to Auto (the default) and especially if Autofit to Contents is enabled. I suspect you're trying to do something with this table that a table isn't designed to do. Possibly what you really want is newspaper-style columns (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/UsingColumns.htm). More probably you're creating a form and trying to use bottom cell borders to simulate fill-in-the-blanks lines. Unfortunately, Word tables just don't work that way. If you insist on having these lines (not really necessary in a form created on and printed from a computer), you'll have to use drawing lines; see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms.htm -- 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. "parapist" wrote in message ... I have a table within a document where we need to type a lenthy narrative. Is there a way to automatically get text to start in the next cell when a cell if full? Do you have to tab everytime? |
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