getting text to automatically move to the next cell.

[parapist]

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?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

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

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?

 

[Chad DeMeyer]

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