Top/Bottom padding in table cells: error when appending a line from clipboard

[Rainer Neugebauer]

Create a table and set the top/bottom padding as per
above, e.g. to .1.

Mark a line in the table and use Ctrl-X, then Ctrl-V at
another point inside the table: The line will move to the
new place, with all settings intact. OK so far. Now try
moving the line to the end of the table, by placing the
cursor outside the table, right after the table's last
line: Ctrl-V adds the line to the table, but it *loses
the top/bottom padding*. (This used to work right in
previous versions!).

Feature wanted:

Tables: New tables come with a setting providing for cell
padding left and right, but not top/bottom. They don't
look good to me, so every single time I create a new
table I must change the zeroes in Table properties /
Options, which is very time consuming.

I would like Word to have a setting where I can tell it
what padding cells should always have in a new table;
Word's presets seem very random to me.

 

[Beth Melton]

Hi Rainer,

What version of Word are you using? If you are using Word 2002 then I
suspect what you are looking for may be something as simple as
modifying the Table Grid style.

- Turn on the Styles and Formatting Task Pane
- Click the down arrow to the right of the 'Table Grid' style and
click Modify
- Click the 'Format' command and select 'Table Properties'
- Change the cell padding (cell margins) and any other changes you
wish to make for default tables
- Prior closing the Modify Style dialog box turn on "Add to Template"
to add the modified style to your Normal.dot which will replace the
Table Grid style in new documents

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