Annoying plus sign in table columns

In case others come here (like I did) to find the answer to this question, there is another solution to the problem if you want to keep your row height and font size the same. You can go select the whole table, go the Text tab of the inspector, and at the bottom, reduce the inset margin to 0 or 1. This will make the text utilize the full width/height of the cell.

Jack,

The plus sign is the indicator that you have content that doesn't fit in the display area of the container. It's possible that you have a return character, or spaces or other items that you don't really care about beyond the displayed content, but Pages doesn't know that you don't want to include it, so it sends up that warning.

You can turn on the text Wrap, or you can try deleting excess characters, or you can shrink the content by changing the font size, and so forth.

Jerry

Fonts include some built-in space in addition to the actual height of the characters. You can see the it in this example of lead type. Note the space below the descenders of the y, q and p characters, and above the t (slightly shorter than other characters with ascenders). Most characters with ascenders would reach very close to the top of the type block, like the ampersand, and other symbols in the lower row. Electronic 'type' includes this space as well, as an aid to readability.

Regards,

Barry

I think this was indeed the intent of this feature, but it appears to be buggy.

For example, if you're in a cell and you hit return/enter you get the plus sign. Deleting the cell contents does not remove the plus sign.

Interestingly, when the plus sign is present you can click on a cell and drag/drop the contents.

There's something strange here.

I've never seen the behavior you describe, fortunately.

Jerry