PowerPoint Tables: Cell size

[Guest]

I have a table which is large for one slide in PowerPoint. The vertical size
of each cell is quite large and i would like to reduce that size. Whenever i
click and drag on bottom or top of the cell, its size snaps back to the
orginal size.

How do i set the vertical size to be smaller?

any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

 

[Guest]

Are you trying to select one cell and getting handles which are little black
x's?

You cant do this its a grouped object.

Select the whole table (handles are white circles) and reduce the height of
all cells at once.

Alternatively ungroup the table and ajust as you like.
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[Guest]

There is no simplier way than to ungroup and then deal with text boxes and
table lines all individually?? it is a nightmare.

The white circles don't work. It immediately snaps back to the original size.

This is all much easier in Word.

 

[Guest]

Is the table empty?
It will always snap back to the minimum size to accomodate the content (even
if its just carriage returns)
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[Guest]

What's the font size in cells? Line spacing? Perhaps they have default to
something large...

 

[Guest]

The cells have a mix of text in some and equations in others. The font size
is 10pt, yet the vertical size of the cell is much larger. Unlike in Word, i
don't know how to set the cell size in PowerPoint. It is behaving like there
is some minimum vertical cell size that i can no go below.

How do you set the cell size in PowerPoint?

Thanks

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

There is no simplier way than to ungroup and then deal with text boxes and
table lines all individually?? it is a nightmare.

The white circles don't work. It immediately snaps back to the original size.

The minimum cell height PPT allows will depend on the size of the text in the cell.
Try reducing the text size.

This is all much easier in Word.

At one time, inserting a table into PPT actually used Word tables. That's been
replaced with native PPT tables, but the feature's rather weak compared to Word's
tables.

You can always create your table in Word, save the doc, select the table then Edit,
Copy. Switch to PPT and Edit, Paste Special, Link.

Doubleclick the table in PPT to launch it in Word for editing if need be.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, that actually works, well almost.

I lost all the horizontal lines in the process which turns a table into not
much of a table any more.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks, that actually works, well almost.

I lost all the horizontal lines in the process which turns a table into not
much of a table any more.

You're making the thing really really small then?

Try it in Slide Show view.