text cut off in shaded table cells

[ppitlanish]

What the heck is going on? I've made a table, with the first 2 rows shaded
at 15%. It looks fine on the monitor, but when printed, the text IN THE
SHADED CELLS ONLY (!) is cut-off on left & right edges of cells. None of the
type is cut off in the unshaded cells. What the heck???

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Let me guess. Perhaps you applied shading but inadvertently applied it to
the text instead of the cell itself, so it didn't extend to the cell
borders. So you either reduced the cell margins to 0 or dragged the
paragraph indents (making them negative). Does any of this sound possible?

 

[ppitlanish]

Well, I actually figured out the problem on my own yesterday. No, I didn't
apply the shading to the text only, but to the cell. The margins for cells
were set wrong, so I corrected it in Formats--->Paragraph--->Indents/Spacing.
I now have the margins set at Left alignment, with 0 as the indent. I
printed one sample, & it looked good. I just don't understand why it looks
right on the monitor, but prints funky.