Limiting the size of a table to a half of a regular page

[Carmen]

Does anyone know of an efficient way to create a table of a certain size and
be able to prevent the size to be altered?

Any help with this will be greatly appretiated.

Carmen

 

[Jezebel]

Don't even know an INefficient way to do this. What is the end to which such
table control is the means?

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?Q2FybWVu?=,

Does anyone know of an efficient way to create a table of a certain size and
be able to prevent the size to be altered?

What's possible depends a lot on the version of Word, and what other kind of
editing should be possible in the document.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Carmen]

Thank you for your responses.
I need to allow a specific amount of text on a page (1/2 of a page) for a
specific section.

Many thanks,

Carmen

 

[Jezebel]

You've already told us that. We need to know --

what version of Word?

what you mean by 'specific amount of text' -- specific number of words?
specific number of column-centimeters in a given font and size?

what you mean by 'allow' -- physically prevent any more text than that?
encourage the user not to exceed it?

whether any editing is permitted elsewhere in the document.

 

[Carmen]

Word 2000, and it should be half of a 8 1/2" by 11" wih a 1/2" margin all
around in font size 9.

There is a heading that preceeds this section and it is followed by Next
Page Section Break. I have it in two columns but it continues to flow on the
next page and the same thing when I placed the columns in a table. After this
conversation, my question should probably be, can we control the size of a
specific section in Word 2000?

Thank you for you assistance,

Carmen

 

[Jezebel]

Depends what you mean by 'control' ...

Word 2000, and it should be half of a 8 1/2" by 11" wih a 1/2" margin all
around in font size 9.

There is a heading that preceeds this section and it is followed by Next
Page Section Break. I have it in two columns but it continues to flow on
the
next page and the same thing when I placed the columns in a table. After
this
conversation, my question should probably be, can we control the size of a
specific section in Word 2000?

Thank you for you assistance,

Carmen

 

[Peter Jamieson]

Limiting anything is either hard or impossible if the application is
intended to allow end users to do what they want.

In this case, you could consider enabling the Control toolbox and inserting
2 fixed size textboxes with some spaces in between, and setting their
properties so that "multiline" is true. Then switch out of "Design mode" and
save the document.

Problems include:
a. IME using controls this way in a Word document is slow and crash-prone
b. you may not be able to prevent your users from adjusting the size of the
textboxes, or deleting them, anyway
c. there's no automatic text flow between one control and the next.
d. users just get to type in the font you specified, with right, left, or
centred formatting. No other formatting, no justified text etc.


Peter Jamieson

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?Q2FybWVu?=,

Word 2000, and it should be half of a 8 1/2" by 11" wih a 1/2" margin all
around in font size 9.

There is a heading that preceeds this section and it is followed by Next
Page Section Break. I have it in two columns but it continues to flow on the
next page and the same thing when I placed the columns in a table. After this
conversation, my question should probably be, can we control the size of a
specific section in Word 2000?

Set the column widths and row heights to exact measurements. They could contain
more text, but the table won't grow...

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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