Cell-end mark takes up a line of its own

[Paul]

I created a table with fixed-width columns. In the top row, each cell
contains a Microsoft Word Picture (I think it's synomyous with a
Picture Object). I resize the picture object to take up the entire
width. The height of the row increases to accommodate the Picture
Object. This is good with one exception. When the Picture Object
takes up the entire column width, the end-of-cell mark (like an end-of-
paragraph mark, but round) wraps around to occupy a text line of its
own. I don't want this extra space, but neither do I want the Picture
Object to be shrunk to take up less than the entire column width. Is
there a way to prevent the end-of-cell mark taking up an entire text
line's worth of cell height?

I'm using Word 2003 on Windows XP.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You might try giving the cell paragraph a tiny negative right indent. Or
perhaps format the EOC marker as Hidden?

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

 

[another paul]

Good ideas - but how to select the EOC marker in order to format it?

I have this same problem with a large table and would like to use search-and-replace for the EOC marker to replace it with EOC formatted as Hidden; otherwise even with F4 it will take too much effort to click or scroll to every EOC in the entire table.

Thanks -
AnotherPaul

 

[Stefan Blom]

You can't select just the end-of-cell marker. If you try, the whole cell gets selected. Instead, set a negative indent for the text in cell, as suggested by Suzanne.

Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"another paul" wrote in message
Good ideas - but how to select the EOC marker in order to format it?

I have this same problem with a large table and would like to use search-and-replace for the EOC marker to replace it with EOC formatted as Hidden; otherwise even with F4 it will take too much effort to click or scroll to every EOC in the entire table.

Thanks -
AnotherPaul