Cell-end mark takes up a line of its own

Paul

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Mar 5, 2010, 6:29:50 PM3/5/10

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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

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Mar 5, 2010, 6:44:21 PM3/5/10

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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

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another paul

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Jan 20, 2011, 11:10:33 AM1/20/11

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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

> On Friday, March 05, 2010 6:29 PM Paul wrote:

> I created a table with fixed-width columns. In the top row, each cell

> contains a Microsoft Word Picture (I think it is 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 do not 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 am using Word 2003 on Windows XP.

>> On Friday, March 05, 2010 6:44 PM Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:

>> You might try giving the cell paragraph a tiny negative right indent. Or
>> perhaps format the EOC marker as Hidden?
>>
>> --
>> Suzanne S. Barnhill
>> Microsoft MVP (Word)
>> Words into Type
>> Fairhope, Alabama USA
>> http://word.mvps.org

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Stefan Blom

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Jan 30, 2011, 2:59:36 PM1/30/11

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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

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Lenny In Satellite Beach

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Sep 10, 2015, 10:00:12 AM9/10/15

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Not sure how this works in earlier versions of Word, but I had the same problem in Word 2010. I solved it by

>highlighting the text in the specific cell,

>right-click, select "Table Properties"

["Cell Options" dialog box appears]

>Uncheck "Wrap Text"