Re: Aligning text in tables

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My suggestion won't help with vertical alignment. Sorry.

Only thing I can think of is experimenting with a different font size for
your symbols. I suspect Suzanne Barnhill would know. She may stop by later.
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Charles Kenyon

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"Mikey" <Mikey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I'll experinment with that, however I'm not sure how that will help. The
> horizontal alignment doesn't seem to be the problem, it's the combination
> of
> a regular text for the numbers (times new roman, font 10pt) and various
> symbols such as wingdings or WS MathExtendedA (of varying fonts). For
> some
> reason the combination changes the alignment of the regular number, and it
> the center of the vertical center of the regular number is not at the same
> place as the vertical center of the symbol.
>
> However, I will try your suggestion to see what happens. Thank you.
>
> "Charles Kenyon" wrote:
>
>> Consider setting a decimal tab in your tables instead of centering
>> horizontally.
>> --
>> Charles Kenyon
>>
>> Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word
>>
>> Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
>> Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide
>>
>> See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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>> This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies
>> and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn
>> from my ignorance and your wisdom.
>>
>> "Mikey" <Mikey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:FBB1B659-F8DF-4562-AB37-346EEB38BA52@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Hi folks,
>> >
>> > I have a nice looking, formatted table, with one problem. Most of
>> > the
>> > cells contain numbers and sometimes a symbol or a wingding (like an
>> > arrow).
>> > The entire table is formatted to be centered vertically and
>> > horizontally.
>> > However, the cells with both a number and a symbol/webding don't align
>> > with
>> > the other cells with just numbers. It's actually very messy looking.
>> > I've
>> > tried adjusting the row sizes to be equal, it didn't work.
>> >
>> > The wingdings and symbols begin to look like subscripts and
>> > superscripts,
>> > but I need them to aling with the numbers vertically. Any thoughts?
>>
>>
>>


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