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Dealing with overset text in table cells

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Dealing with overset text in table cells

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- One of the most frustrating things about working with tables can be dealing with text overset. It doesn't have to be that way, though, as long as you know why it's happening, and more importantly, how to fix it. The cause of text overset usually has to do with row height. Let's take a look at this table. If I selected this first row and come up to the control panel, I can see that the row height is set to "At Least." That means it's going to grow depending on the amount of text that's in here. If I add text, and I've got some over here on the paste board, so I'm going to select it, and then copy it into the clipboard, and I'm going to add it to this first cell. Wow, that's a lot of text. But, because the row height is set to grow, it's set to "At Least," the row height accommodates that text and there's no problem. There is no text overset. Well, this is a little bit much. I'm going to delete some of this text. And the row height accommodates it. The problem with text overset…

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