Re: [libreoffice-users] Row height in Writer tables

Remy,

Thanks for your reply. When I set table contents to single the table
suddenly looked correct. So my problem is solved, but I am still
confused. Both tables look correct now, but note below how the settings
are different:

Table 1
Everything set to Default Paragraph Style, which is set to 16 points
fixed leading. Table Contents style is not applied. Padding is all set
to -0-. Cell height is all set to 16 points, and Fit to Size is not
checked.

Table 2
This table was originally set the same as Table 1, but the text was all
squished and row height was half what it needed to be. I changed the
Table Contents style to Single and applied it to the entire table. On
doing that the table all suddenly appeared correct, except that row 2
(which is a header and has a 0.5 point rule under it) appeared with the
text right on top of the rule. I fixed it by adding 0.5 point bottom
padding to just that row. I probably should have just centered the row,
per your suggestion.

So now everything in Table 1 is set to Default Paragraph Style and
everything in Table 2 is set to Table Contents. They look identical,
i.e., Table 2 rows are also 16 points, even though the Table Contents
style is set to Single.


On Tue, 29 Dec 2020 17:56:32 -0500
Remy Gauthier <remygauthier@yahoo.com> dijo:

> Greetings,
> I do this to get my tables the way I want them to be.
>
> 1) Normally, table content has the style "Table Contents" assigned to
> it. Edit that style (View > Styles, then right click on Table Contents
> and select Modify... in the style list) and make sure the spacing
> before and after the paragraph are zero and the the line spacing is
> single (on the Indents & Spacing tab). If they are not zero and the
> spacing is not single, you will not get the results you are hoping for.
> 2) Create your table; make sure the assigned style is indeed Table
> Contents. Set it to that otherwise (select the table, apply the style).
> Set the vertical alignment to Middle to center the text in the row if
> the font size is small - this is purely cosmetic.
> 3) Go to the Table Properties, and set the up and down border paddings
> to zero. I sually leave the Left/Right to whatever value they have.
> 4) Select the table and set the row heigth to 0,22 inches (72 points
> per inch), or 0.56cm. Make sure when you set the height that you
> uncheck the Fit to size box
>
> This should work.
> Best regards,
> Rémy.
>
> Le mardi 29 décembre 2020 à 12:35 -0800, John Jason Jordan a écrit :
> > This is driving me nuts.
> >
> > LO 7.0.2.2 on Xubuntu 20.04, up to date.
> >
> > I have two tables in a Writer document, each with about 25 rows.
> > After hours spent poking at dozens of different settings I finally
> > got one of them with 16 point rows, but after applying all the same
> > settings to the second one the text is still squished. I'm finding
> > tables to be hopelessly unintuitive.
> >
> > You have Size > Row Height, you have Paragraph > Leading, you have
> > Boundaries > Padding, and probably several more that I have fiddled
> > with. And some of these don't even work - I applied Paragraph >
> > Leading, where the drop-down had nothing in it and the point size
> > box said 100%, so I changed it to Fixed and 16 points, and applied
> > it. When I went back to Paragraph > Leading it was back to nothing
> > in the drop-down and 100% for the point size. No error messages, it
> > just failed to take my settings. What the heck?
> >
> > I need a way to make every row a specific point size that always
> > 'just works.' Is that possible?
> >   

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