Threads Replies Last Post 58 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26  27  28  29  30  >>   margins of tables aaargh!! please help. I have various tables with varying column thicknesses but the same number of columns. I need to copy rows between tables. The columns never line up and I am wasting so much time with trying to get them aligned (dragging columns with ALT key down and/or playing with column widths, etc). Is there a way of linking the position of the columns in one row with the row abo... 7 06.07.2006 14:54:07 Table of Contents After typing out a good deal of a very long document, I found that my left hand margin is 2cm, but it needs to be 4cm to meet submission requirements. No, problem I simply used the slide-bar at the top of the document to change the left margin to 4cms. Other than a few simple formating issues, everything appears okay. However, in my document I have 3 tables; Contents, List of Figures ... 3 06.07.2006 07:58:02 Table shadings print in colour when its set to grey on screen I have use a colour shading to in-fill a cell in a word table. I have set this to 15% grey, yet when I print, it's printing in pink. Both printer cartridges are full and I haven't changed any default settings. Does anyone knwo why or how to correct this please?... 3 06.07.2006 02:39:19 how do i select and format all tables in a document at once i have a huge document (several hundred pages) with hundreds of tables exported from a statistical analysis program (SPSS). specifically, i want to make each table "autofit to contents", because this will reduce the size of my output by a large amount. i can't seem to find a way to select all tables at once; thus i cannot autofit all tables to contents at once. thanks... 8 06.07.2006 00:25:43 managing word tables how do I insert multiple lines or rows in a table... 4 05.07.2006 15:05:16 Merging and re-splitting cells I and many of my fellow users are often bemused by the behaviour of cells when, for example, a cell from resulting merged cells is later split again. In some cases the cell boundaries match the boundaries of un-merged cells in earlier rows or columns, and in some cases they don't. And how do I tell if a cell boundary very close to a boundary above or to its left is the same as its predecessor... 1 05.07.2006 15:03:15 adjacent cell selected I am wanting to select two cells in a big table - one under the other. However, when I drag the mouse down, the adjacent cell to the right is also selected. I know this has something to do with the cells not aligning perfectly but I have tried my best to get them perfectly aligned, even at a 500% zoom. I have tried double clicking on column lines, dragging to set tabs, but it does not go... 2 05.07.2006 14:44:39 ZERO WIDTH CHARACHTERS I NEED TO ADD AN ARABIC SPECIAL CHARACHTER FOR ~ THAT TAKES ZERO WIDTH IN WORD FILES TO LOOK THE SAME AS ANY OF THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERS Ù‹ ُ Ù’ ÙŽ AND SO ON ... 3 05.07.2006 13:26:17 How do I set up tracking chart How do I enter variable items to sort? such as Book, author, date, comments, etc. across, down or how? Sorry I am so dumb about this -- Louisa... 3 04.07.2006 21:13:03 Angled direction heading text for tables in WORD Any one know how to create? David... 2 04.07.2006 18:24:07 how can I create+ print 3 x 5 + 4 x6 index cards I'm handicapped + this would really help me... 1 03.07.2006 18:29:02 Table Header Problems I'm trying to repeat row 1 of my table as a header on multiple sheets and I can't get it to work. I've searched the newsgroup to see if someone else has had this problem and have tried some of the suggestions, but to no avail. This is what I see. Row 1 has repeat as header row selected. All subsequent rows have that selected, but it's grayed out. I'm still not seeing the header ro... 5 03.07.2006 15:31:19 Working in Tables Cause word to crash I have had this problem in two seperate documents. When working in a table and doing a lot of cutting and pasting, reformatting etc all tables suddenly screw up and lose their formatting. Word then crashes (get the 'Not responding' error message). If I try to reload either the original file or the autosave copy they open at the first page of the document and then word crashes. Has any... 2 03.07.2006 10:35:07 If I insert an Excel table I get a graph, not the cells I specifie I've done some kind of mess. I played with the Objet "Convert" and "Activate as" options in an embedded Excel table in a Word file, and now everytime I want to insert an Excel table (e.g. 3x2 cells) I get a graph in the Excel table instead of what I specified. Is there any way to fix whatever I modified?... 2 03.07.2006 10:35:06 Merging of cells within a table We are using a document consisting of tables and cells for outside typesetting purposes. When the documents come back in (usually 200 pgs. or more) we do some pagination to the documents ie: merging cells. The document has 2 columns of cells, 1 column on the left and 1 on the right hand side of the paper, both are .5 width. somewhere in the middle of the book we can no longer merge th... 2 03.07.2006 10:35:06 How do I increase the number of characters in field form help text I am using MS Word 2000 and I am trying to use the F1 Help Key function to assist end users with completing my form correctly. I would like to know how to increase the number of characters I can type in the help text field. Any help would be greatly appreciated?... 2 03.07.2006 10:35:05 Need macro to locate table uniquely, insert blank row and date and end table I have a Word template that contains one table of 1-4 rows and 4 columns (the table is to record the document's revision history). I have a macro that inserts a blank row and the current date in the first column of that row, but if I run the macro again, the date goes outside the table. The macro is executed as an AutoNew command so that it runs as soon as a document is created from the tem... 5 01.07.2006 11:33:19 Changing languange for all table cells Hi! MS Word 2003 Pretty simple question.... I start a new table, which supposed to have all entreis in Russian. In first cell of my table I switch my keyboard to "Russian" and type the Russian text. Now I pass to second cell. The keyboard language automatically switched back to English. In other words: in every new cell I have to switch my language to Russian. "Selecting All" the table... 2 01.07.2006 09:31:46 What are my cell borders now? Hi All, Am I doing something wrong or is this poor functionality? In Word 2003, in my table cell: table > table properties > borders and shading > borders tab > apply to: cell Don't you think the current borders of the cell you're in should be shown? I get no borders. I'm just making a lot of forms and trying to match the borders to other forms, but I can't see or re... 4 01.07.2006 03:05:25 Funny symbol appears when I cut from internet and paste into Word Hello, I am currently working on a table in Word using information that I have copied from an internet site. When I go to paste info into my Word table, a tiny blue square with a white "L" appears before the text. When I hover over it, it says "Javascript: void(0); ctrl + click to follow link." (Of course all the links are dead.) These symbols are all in the same column. I really ... 3 30.06.2006 09:32:42 cell addresses and formula? I have a table in word which has a couple of columns headers "Number of hours" and "Tuition". I want to use the number of hours * 4.5 to obtain the tuition. I can easily do it in Excel =G4*4.5 but I do not understand how you obtain the proper cell addresses in Word to perform this. The columns are adjacent so is there another way? Thanks for information. Susan www.esill.net ... 5 30.06.2006 03:18:31 Document Footers I have a document where the first page footer is unique, and the next 5 pages need to be numbered 1 of 5, 2 of 5, and so on. How do I get the first page to be unique, and then have the pages start numbering on the second page?... 2 29.06.2006 20:22:59 Converting word tables to HTML Hello All, I have read through these topics trying to get my problem resolved and cannot seem to find a solution that works. I have some long tables that I have created in word, and when I try to publish them to HTML they are always slightly too wide -- maybe the final right inch does not appear on the screen. I have tried autofit to window width, manually editing the code, and a number ... 3 29.06.2006 19:05:39 Table cells resizing I am creating a fairly complex table (100 plus cells, cells merged across rows). I am about 2/3rd the way thru the design and when I split a new row into multiple cells a large number of the cells I had already set the way I wanted, shift their sizes (horizontally) and positions. The option to Automatically resize to fit contents is turned off. The default cell margins are set to the ... 2 29.06.2006 17:28:10 How do I insert multiple rows in the middle of a table in MSWord? ... 2 29.06.2006 14:03:10 58 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26  27  28  29  30  >>