Cannot resize cell in table w/o text disappearing

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Cannot resize cell in table w/o text disappearing

Hi:

I have been trying to shrink a cell to fit/center 9 pt. text, but every time I shrink a row below a certain size the text will be hidden. Usually (in Word documents...) when resizing rows/cells the text will automatically move according to the cell size. I need a certain number of rows/columns per page but can't fit the text in the cell without a plus sign appearing in the right hand corner of the cell.

Thanks for any help!!!

ibook G4, Mac OS X (10.4.11), n/a

Posted on Feb 10, 2010 8:01 AM

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Answer 1

KOENIG Yvan

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Feb 10, 2010 8:11 AM in response to Kates H 25

You aren't using Word but Pages, is it surprising that they behave differently ?
Certainly not !
Happily (from my point of view) shrinking the cell width doesn't change the size of characters.
As cells of a column are supposed to have the same width, use the described feature : double click the column's right edge in the in the row of tabs to adjust the width to the wider contained string.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 10 février 2010 17:11:05

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fruhulda

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Feb 10, 2010 8:30 AM in response to Kates H 25

Use a smaller font. Font in the same point measure aren't of the same size always.

Decrease the top and bottom margins of the document.

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Feb 10, 2010 8:45 AM in response to Kates H 25

Hi Kates H 25

Welcome to the forum.

Select the cells and go to:

+Inspector > Text > Text > Inset Margin > make 0+

Peter

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Kates H 25 Author

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Feb 10, 2010 9:44 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

Thank you! (especially Peter...)

I just downloaded iWork trial yesterday so I'm just trying to get the hang of things. I'm glad you understood what I was trying to troubleshoot as I could not copy/paste an example of my problem.

As to KOENIG's response, I certainly did not say I was surprised that the programs behaved differently. I was merely trying to describe what I was able to do in Word documents and not in iWork so that perhaps my problem could be made more clear. However, I still appreciate the response.

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