Table height - automatic fit?

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Terry Pinnell

While working on a page made structured as a table, I constantly find
I have to keep resizing it to see it properly. For example, after
deleting a chunk of content, I find the table is far too high, and has
somehow become set to a fixed height. After removing that checkmark, I
manually drag it upward, (which takes several steps), whereupon the
height becomes fixed again.

Is there a simple way of getting the table to automatically refit
please, eliminating all the empty space? Using 'Autofit' doesn't seem
to help.
 
Never drag a table - it will convert all cells to fixed PX
Use Table Insert Cell/Row or merge cells

You will probably have to go into html (code) view and remove all the px sizes

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| While working on a page made structured as a table, I constantly find
| I have to keep resizing it to see it properly. For example, after
| deleting a chunk of content, I find the table is far too high, and has
| somehow become set to a fixed height. After removing that checkmark, I
| manually drag it upward, (which takes several steps), whereupon the
| height becomes fixed again.
|
| Is there a simple way of getting the table to automatically refit
| please, eliminating all the empty space? Using 'Autofit' doesn't seem
| to help.
|
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| Terry, West Sussex, UK
|
 
Stefan B Rusynko said:
Never drag a table - it will convert all cells to fixed PX
Use Table Insert Cell/Row or merge cells
Click to expand...

But in the situation I described surely neither would be appropriate?
I haven't added any cells or rows, just ended up with a lot of empty
space.
You will probably have to go into html (code) view and remove all the px sizes
Click to expand...

Can I not just use Table|Properties to uncheck 'Specify Height'? Or
could I just set height to some very low number?

BTW, several times today I've seen the apparent contradiction of a low
pixel number in height for my container table - once it was 1px! - yet
I was still having to scroll several screens top to botton.
 
This happens to me too sometimes, as my homepage is a large table and I am
constantly putting things in and taking things out. All you have to do is go
into "table properties" and uncheck "specify height." If you have any cells
that extend the entire height of the table, you may also have to go into
"cell properties" and do the same thing. What will save you time is to put
the "cell properties" and "table properties" on your toolbar. Then it just
takes a few seconds to take care of the problem.

If the table still looks too big after this, you can try saving it and then
clicking on >view >refresh.

Wally S
 
Wally S said:
This happens to me too sometimes, as my homepage is a large table and I am
constantly putting things in and taking things out. All you have to do is go
into "table properties" and uncheck "specify height." If you have any cells
that extend the entire height of the table, you may also have to go into
"cell properties" and do the same thing. What will save you time is to put
the "cell properties" and "table properties" on your toolbar. Then it just
takes a few seconds to take care of the problem.

If the table still looks too big after this, you can try saving it and then
clicking on >view >refresh.
Click to expand...

Thanks, Wally. I'll try that Cell Properties suggestion, as I reckon
that might be relevant here. But when I have entire table selected
(within which all the page content is placed, some of it in various
subordinate cells), and I uncheck 'specify height', it doesn't seem to
reduce the height. Also, good tip about those tools. Mind you, I
always find myself doing Table|Select Table first, as I'm not
confident I have the right table snagged!
 
Terry,

When I delete cells, I select the table properties and make sure no height
value is blank, if the table doesn't automatically reduce.

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Thomas A. Rowe said:
Terry,

When I delete cells, I select the table properties and make sure no height
value is blank, if the table doesn't automatically reduce.
Click to expand...

Thanks Thomas, another good tip I'll try.
 
Terry,

Correction: "no height value is blank" should have read "no height value is
set"

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Thanks for the correction. You had me scratching my head.

Wally S

Thomas A. Rowe said:
Terry,

Correction: "no height value is blank" should have read "no height value is
set"

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Click to expand...
 
Another thing is that you could drag the table borders to where you want
them to be and then uncheck the "specify height." That also works. But it
may still look wrong until you refresh the page.

Wally S
 
Wally S said:
Another thing is that you could drag the table borders to where you want
them to be and then uncheck the "specify height." That also works. But it
may still look wrong until you refresh the page.
Click to expand...

Thanks, now confirmed that. In fact, that's the only tactic I've found
so far that consistently does work. Directly after deleting material,
even after saving and refreshing, the empty space still persists. But
if I do as you suggest above, i.e. drag the lower edge upwards and
*then* uncheck 'specify height', that gets the page back in shape.
 
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