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• • February 3, 2016 at 3:56 am #81481
    Anonymous

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    Hello, I’m working on a brochure which has been set up in tables. Most of it is fairly standard, but some cells have been unequally split into two vertically to contain an image in the narrower left cell and some icons in the wider right.

    I’m trying to replicate this exact split in two similar rows of images and icons further down the table, so all those images and icons line up vertically. Unfortunately though, when I split the required further-down cell vertically then shift-drag to try and make the same unequal width two cells as the original row, I can’t shift-drag the boundary far enough to align with the original boundary in the cell higher up. For some reason it stops short of aligning by about 2mm. Then, if I try again even further down, shift-dragging the boundary again stops about 2mm short of aligning with the row above, and about 4mm short of the original row, so for some reason the error is compounding.

    If I try and set each cell width numerically, it changes the cells in the other two rows and the same 2mm / 4mm misalignment remains, so I can’t fix it that way.

    Can anyone help fix this? Or if not, is there a way of setting cell widths independently so they don’t affect any other cells in the table?

    Thanks.

  • February 3, 2016 at 5:29 am #81483
    Chris Thompson

    Member

    Two ideas:
    1. Have you checked the cell insets in each case? If they’re bigger in the new cell, could that possibly prevent the size going any smaller?
    2. Is there a “snap to grid” setting on in your case, which was off when the original was set up?

    Good luck,
    Chris.

  • February 3, 2016 at 7:41 am #81491
    Frances Simons

    Member

    Hi James,
    I know exactly the issue you’re puzzling over as I’ve had it myself. No snaps and no insets and on a fresh, non-import table too. I will be interested to hear what the experts say. Meanwhile if you want work-arounds just say

  • February 3, 2016 at 4:13 pm #81526
    Colleen Shannon

    Member

    James, there are some workarounds for these kinds of problems, and sometimes it’s just best to select the whole table, Table->convert table to text, then Table->convert text to table.

    Otherwise, you can create new rows, copy the info into them, or play with Split and Merge cells. Sometimes you can select multiple cells, right click and Unmerge Cells.

    Don’t try these without saving a copy of your document, of course.

    Good luck.

  • February 4, 2016 at 3:40 am #81528
    Anonymous

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    Thanks everyone for your suggestions. After a lot of experimentation it seemed that the problem lay in trying to later replicate the split of an existing cell (which in this case someone else had created). The workaround I used was to merge every cell that had the unequal split, split them all again into equal halves, then shift-drag the boundary of the top row to make it the required unequal split again. The split cells in the other rows below followed suit and all were aligned.

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