Table/Box construction

[Bill Stanton]

I have a table with 8 rows of large cells (about 7" wide by 1 1/4" high)
that fill an 8 1/2 x 11 page. I'd like to enumerate those cells by inserting
a small box containing the "cell #" in the upper left-hand corner of the
cell. Sounds like a job for a text-box, doesn't it? Well, even using Word's
nudging facilities I can't get the top and left edges of a text-box to share
the boarder lines of the cell. Nor can I get a 1 x 1 table to position with
"shared" top and left-side boarders.

Is there some Word facility that I'm simply not familiar with to accomplish
this?

Thanks,
Bill

 

[tappies]

Hi Bill,

Which version of Word are you using?

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

And if you don't want to get into the added complexity of nested tables
(which can make a document unstable), you might experiment with just putting
a border around the text (Format | Borders and Shading | Apply to: Text).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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[tappies]

Hi Bill,

I should have mentioned this before - if you do not change the wrapping
of the 1 x 1 table to Around in the Table Properties dialog box, any
text typed in the "big" cell will go below it.

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