Jupe said:
How do you prevent cells in table from expanding with the text within
that cell? Is there a way to have the word go to the next cell
automatically while typing?
For the first question, you can fix the size of a cell to absolute
measurements as follows:
- Click Table > AutoFit > Fixed Column Width to prevent horizontal expansion
AND
- Click Table > Table Properties > Row, check the box for "Specify height",
enter the desired height, and change from "At least" to "Exactly".
The answer to the second question is "no". If the user continues to type
after the fixed cell is full, the overflow text will disappear below the
bottom border of the cell. It will still be there (and could be retrieved by
enlarging the cell or by using a macro), but it won't be visible.
It may be possible to program a macro to jump to the next cell
automatically, but it is not possible to make a table behave that way with
any built-in features. That macro would be fairly complicated, because there
is no easy way for a macro to "know" when a cell is full. You can do that
manually, though, by pressing the down-arrow key if the cell in the next row
exists, or the Tab key if the row needs to be created.
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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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