Here we have a basic feature table that needs some clean up. To illustrate how Shrink to fit works, lets look at a typical layout problem. Shrink to fit will automatically reduce the font size until text fits in a cell. On the Table tab of the dialog box, set the Preferred width to 100%. One of the options grouped under Alignment is Shrink to fit.
The Table tab of the Table Properties dialog box. Choose Table Properties and Word displays the Table Properties dialog box. To prevent Word from resizing your table columns, select the 'Fixed column. Click the Options button, uncheck the 'Automatically resize to fit contents' box, and then click the OK button to close each dialog box (see Figure 7-2). Choose AutoFit and then AutoFit Window.įinally, another option is to right-click within the table to display a Context menu. Right-click in the table, choose Table Properties, and click the Table tab if it's not already displayed. (This small square has a four-headed arrow within it, and clicking it once selects the entire table.) Right-click within the table to display a Context menu. The feature Shrink to Fit, or Shrink to One Page automagically re-sizes the text, adjusts margins and turns that brings everything together to fit on one page. Word makes sure that the table fits within the margins of the page.Īnother way to accomplish the same task is to click the small square that appears at the upper-left corner of the table. To avoid printing a whole page of white space when you have only a small paragraph, rows of a table, or text that bleed over into the next page. Click on the Layout tab, click the AutoFit tool, and then choose AutoFit Window. Word should display two new ribbon tabs: Design and Layout. The first (and perhaps easiest) is to simply click anywhere within any visible portion of the table. There are a couple of approaches you can use to get your table back in control. He wonders if there is a good, easy way to resize the large table so that it fits within the margins of the document into which he pasted it. Double-click a column border to autofit the columns to the new reduced size. Turns out auto-width doesn't work with a table inside a cell.Sometimes when Len copies and pastes a table from one document to another the table exceeds the width of the page, sometimes by a very large amount. Leo Superlongfirstnamethatdoesn'texist's user ID would be something like SUPELEO1), that's enough for positive ID.įor completeness, I've tried aligning text using both paragraph and cell alignment, creating another table within the cell (so I could set one as "auto width" with "fit text" enabled and the other, to fixed width, without fit-text. Because we have the photo and user's ID (e.g. My eventual compromise (not answer, I'm still looking for one!) was to set the row height to be exact (not "at least") so when new text gets entered, it's truncated. Is there a way to fit the text into the table without causing the text to "justify", or cause the font to shrink horizontally?ĮDIT: I'd just be happy to stop the justification, and leave the font squished.ĮDIT 2: I've tried just about everything, save running some kind of macro that measures the text and shrinks it down (too complex, not worth it for only about six out of the 1000 cards I need to produce).
The other cell fits the rest of the table (wider than both contents together) Example:| foo | bar |
(The blue box is where the logo will go, the green box, the photo) First cell is shrink according to the content.
There's an option to fit the text to the table, but that changes the font width (not the font size), so long names look horizontally squashed, and if the user has a short name (like Leo), the whole name is spaced out across the page (so L is on the left, E in the middle, and O on the right) How can I make the table with 2 columns (cells) look like this: First cell is shrink according to the content The other cell fits the rest of the table (wider than both contents together) Example. barcode is always at the bottom, but when I put in a really long first or last name, the text wraps and pushes everything onto two pages, which I don't want. The document is laid out inside of a table so common elements remain in the same spot (e.g. The document has limited space and must fit on a single page, but needs to include the person's photo, as well as first and last names, which can get quite long
SHRINK TO FIT IN WORD TABLE SOFTWARE
I'm writing some software that takes a Microsoft Word document, replaces variables inside, then prints the final document onto an ID card.
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