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• • May 30, 2019 at 7:17 am #116939
    suzerp

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    I have a document with a ton of tables. A paragraph style sheet is assigned to the title of the table. And of course, the customer has changed their mind about the size and typeface. When I change the style sheet, the row height changes in the table, forcing everything down a bit, in some cases causing overset rows and allowing that table to now overlap the text below the table on some pages.

    Is there a way to keep that row height fixed when I change the style? I don’t mind more space in the row – i just need the table to stay in a fixed position.

  • May 30, 2019 at 9:13 am #116943
    Jeremy Howard

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    Hey there!

    There is a way to set a static row height. What you’ll want to do is, select the row that you are going to be changing the type treatment and you should see height and width options in the quick tools in your toolbar. Click the little drop-down menu that says “At Least” and change it to “Exactly” — this will set a static height on that row.

    If, for whatever reason, you don’t see the cell height/width measurements in your quick tools then you can select the row, right click and go to Cell Options > Rows and Columns…

    That will bring you to a dialog where you can set your row height to an exact measurement.

  • May 31, 2019 at 2:27 pm #116967
    suzerp

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    Hi Jeremy –

    Thanks for the reply, but unfortunately what I’ve got going on here is a document with more than 100 tables in it, so I’m hoping for a solution/trick to not have to go through each one and set it static.

    I didn’t create these tables, I inherited the document (I work in prepress, so it’s a customer’s file). But if I were going to make a new document, then I’ll be sure to do the “Exactly” set up.

    – Susan

  • May 31, 2019 at 8:32 pm #116978
    Jeremy Howard

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    If all of the text is set up with proper paragraph style sheets then you can go into the “Advanced Type” tab and play with the horizontal and vertical scaling… Doing this should leave the table rows the same height because the rows don’t respect scaling for resizing purposes.

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