PowerPoint Tables: Cell size

[larry_w]

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,

 

[John Wilson]

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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[larry_w]

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.

 

[John Wilson]

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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[Sandy]

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

 

[larry_w]

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

 

[larry_w]

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.