You need to unlock the table's size so that the cells expand to fit your text. Do one or both of the following:
- On the Table menu, select Grow to Fit Text.
- For diagonally divided cells, position the mouse pointer over the row or column boundary until you see the Adjust pointer, and then drag the boundary.
My text won't fit into the table
cell.
You can adjust the cell margins or the size of the text.
Decrease the width of cell
margins
- Select the cells you want to change.
- Right-click the table, and then click Format Table.
- In the Format Table dialog box, click the Cell Properties tab.
- Under Text Box Margins, enter the measurements for the margins you want.
- Select the text you want to change.
- On the Formatting toolbar, enter a smaller size in the Font Size box.
My table gets bigger when I add
text.
The Grow to Fit Text check box, which unlocks the table's size, is selected on the Table menu. To adjust the existing table, you can use one of the following methods.
- Select the table.
- Position the mouse pointer over a selection handle until you see the Resize icon, and then drag to resize.
- Select the rows or columns you want to change.
- Position the mouse pointer over the row or the column boundary
until you see the
Adjust pointer.
- Drag the boundary of the row or column to a new position.
- Select the cells you want to change.
- Right-click the table, and then click Format Table.
- In the Format Table dialog box, click the Cell Properties tab.
- Under Text Box Margins, enter the measurements for the margins you want.