Row height

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Row height

There has to be a silly easy answer to this but I can't seem to get a blank row to be smaller in height than .13 in. Anyone know the secret? I have no text in any of the cells, I'm just using it as a spacer between the rows above and below.

Thanks,

MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.6.2), Bluetooth Mighty Mouse / Samsung SyncMaster

Posted on Dec 1, 2010 1:14 PM

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Answer 1

Ric Donato

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Dec 1, 2010 6:03 PM in response to picninja

Hi picninja,
The lowest row height I know it will go is .11

Inspector > Table Inspector > Row Height; that is where I set mine and, again .11 is the lower limit.

Cordially,

RicD

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Badunit

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Dec 1, 2010 6:22 PM in response to Ric Donato

I can get it to .11 if I remove the borders or use thin borders. With the default borders, the best I can get is .13 inches in the inspector, though it says .12 inches on the popup message when I'm dragging it.

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Answer 3

Ric Donato

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Dec 1, 2010 6:25 PM in response to Badunit

Hi Badunit,
Hum, on mine I type .11, the Table Inspector shows .11 whereas, typing anything smaller returns .11.

Also, to minimize the row height dragging up also shows .11. Clicking the down arrow on the Table Inspector > Row Height; that brings mine to .11 as well.

Cordially,

RicD

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KOENIG Yvan

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Dec 1, 2010 11:35 PM in response to Ric Donato

When I use a computer, I never use inches or centimeters.

On my machine, the minimal height is 8 points 😉
As far as I know, it's equal to .11 inch

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 2 décembre 2010 08:34:33

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Answer 5

Dec 2, 2010 4:43 AM in response to picninja

p,

My suggestion is to use a very wide cell border rather than an empty row. You can control the width of the border to the nearest pt. I know that you can't get a white divider in this way because it would just appear to have combined the adjacent rows, but perhaps some other color will do. A better approach in my mind is to separate the table into two sub tables.

Jerry

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picninja Author

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Dec 2, 2010 5:44 AM in response to Jerrold Green1

Well, what I've ended up doing is what Jerrold mentioned and separating into individual tables. I cannot make the cell border wider because I'm designing a form in which is I am using narrow columns and rows with a border as check boxes so I needed a black space between. I've separated the tables and inserted a line instead. Works but seems like a silly limitation.

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Answer 7

Dec 2, 2010 6:08 AM in response to picninja

I hope that in time you will come to view the ability to separate and juxtapose tables a freedom rather than a limitation. Good luck with your project.

Jerry

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picninja Author

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Dec 2, 2010 6:13 AM in response to Jerrold Green1

Jerry,
I definitely do see the advantages to this over the excel I used to work with. It's just quick and easy to make a row small, change it's background to black and boom you have a separator line.

Thanks for the help.

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KOENIG Yvan

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Dec 2, 2010 8:35 AM in response to picninja

I don't understand.
When I set the width of an horizontal border to 6 points, the height of the row above and the height of the row below change from 14 to 17 points (14+(6/2)) so the useful white height remains the same than in other rows. Given that, checkboxes perfectly sit in the cells.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 2 décembre 2010 17:35:36

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picninja Author

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Dec 2, 2010 9:22 AM in response to KOENIG Yvan

Yvan,
I was not trying to use the checkbox format in a cell for two reason. I'm creating a form that will be used in paper form, and the check box format requires too large of a cell and therefore limits the amount of info that I can fit onto the form. The checkbox seems to require a .22 x .25 cell to keep it from being cropped. I was using black borders on a narrow column and narrow row to create a checkbox. If I use the border as a divider then my box doesn't make sense anymore. Hope that helps. I'm not sure how to add picture to this message or I would show you the form.

Thanks

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Answer 11

Dec 2, 2010 9:52 AM in response to picninja

p,

To post a graphic here, upload it to a photo hosting site or another server with public access, then copy the link information for the graphic and paste it here.

Jerry

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