Positioning of Content in a Cell

K

king-white-stone

This problem I don't find w/ Office 2000. But in 2002, it surely affects the
quality and efficiency of my work.

Often, I use table in Words to prepare travelling itinerary. Say counting
from the left, column A is for time and column B is for the activity. When
the content in column B is too long and new rows are created, the relative
position of content in column A shifts itself, i.e. the time becomes
mismatched with the activity - disastrous mistake!

I can only rematch the time w/ the activity by inserting blank new rows
(hitting enter) in column A. Every time, I have to be alert how many new rows
are generated in column B and then add the same no. of blank new rows in
column A to rematch w/ the time.

Is there any solution at all?

Would be grateful if someone could prevent me from disaster on my job.
 
S

Shauna Kelly

Hi

I'm not sure from your message if you're using Word's table functionality,
or if you're pressing Tab and Enter to lay text out in a way that kind of
looks like a Table.

Using a Word table to lay out an itinerary is a good idea. But to get the
best out of it, you have to use it in the most effective way.

If necessary, create a table using Table > Insert Table. It sounds like you
need 2 columns and 1 row to start with.

Click in your table. On the Table menu, if Show Gridlines is available, then
click it. (If Hide Gridlines is available, then you already have gridlines
showing.) You can now see a grid indicating the rows in your table. Each
cell can contain several paragraphs. If you click the ¶ button, you'll see a
¶ sign at the end of every paragraph, and a ¤ sign at the end of every cell.

When you click Enter in a cell, you'll see that Word adds paragraphs to the
cell. The paragraphs in one cell don't necessarily line up with the
paragraphs in the cell to the left or right. But the rows in a table are
always lined up with one another.

You need to use a separate table row for each time in your itinerary. To add
a new time to the bottom of your table, just click in the last cell and
press Tab. That will add a new row to the table, and you can fill in the
time and activity. To add a new row in the middle of the table, choose Table
Insert > Rows Above or > Rows Below.

By the way, gridlines in a table never print. They're just there for us to
see where we are in our table. If you want to add or delete borders around
the table, click within the table and choose Format > Borders and Shading.

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
 

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