How do I convert from Legal size paper to letter size in a word ta

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Bridget

I have a word table that is currently legal size and I need to attach it to
another document that is letter size. I cannot get it to reduce to letter
size. What might I be doing wrong?
 
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Gordon Bentley-Mix on news.microsoft.com

Also have you looked that the Table Properties? If the table is defined to be
a certain specific width (measured in inches or centimeters depending on your
settings) rather than a percentage, when you paste it into your letter size
page it will retain those exact measurements - even if it runs over the
margins. Change the width of the table and you should be sweet.
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Gordon Bentley-Mix
Word MVP

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Peter T. Daniels

He means length ... down in Gordon's hemisphere, they size paper with
those numbers (A4, etc.) but legal is just letter-size paper that's
14" instead of 8.5" long.

Things you could do to shorten it include reducing the font size,
reducing the cell top & bottom borders to 0 (that's the "Options"
button in the Table Properties panel, under either "Table" or "Cell"),
and changing the Paragraph Spacing to Exactly some smaller number than
it is.
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

Indeed. I overlooked the information that this was a table (and quite
possibly in Landscape orientation).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Gordon Bentley-Mix on news.microsoft.com"
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

I figured maybe Gordon was assuming (rather astutely, actually) that the
table might be broadside (i.e., the paper in landscape orientation), in
which case a table sized for Letter (11") would not automatically expand to
fit 14" paper unless the width were set to 100%.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

He means length ... down in Gordon's hemisphere, they size paper with
those numbers (A4, etc.) but legal is just letter-size paper that's
14" instead of 8.5" long.

Things you could do to shorten it include reducing the font size,
reducing the cell top & bottom borders to 0 (that's the "Options"
button in the Table Properties panel, under either "Table" or "Cell"),
and changing the Paragraph Spacing to Exactly some smaller number than
it is.
 

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