I’ve searched the forum, and I can’t find the answer I am looking for. Everyone says that what I am trying to do can’t be done, and then I look in the design of the contact form in the personal address book and it looks like it can. I just can’t figure it out.
Here’s what I am trying to do. I have created a form with a tabbed table on it. I then embed another table in that tabbed table. I embed another table in that table. However, instead of being flush with the top and bottom of the table it is embedded in, it creates a gap between the border of the table and the embedded table. I searched the forum looking a tip to make this work, but everyone says it can not be done. And yet, if you look at the design of the Contact form in the personal address book, it obviously can be done.
So what am I missing here? I looked at every table property possible and can’t find it. Any suggestions?
Subject: This may be the stupidest design question I have ever asked–is there any way to have an embedded table be flush with the top or bottom of another table?
Brandt
Try making the innermost table larger so it fills in the gaps… or recreate the outter table at a smaller size, when you put the larger size inner table into it it should expand to fit perfectly around. I’ve had to play around numerous times with table sizes in order to get something to fit properly. Sometimes recreating a smaller outter table and then fitting it with a larger inner table does the trick. If none of the settings seem to be working maybe take a less than perfect approach and play with the tables borders and background colors so it appears the table is flush.
Subject: This may be the stupidest design question I have ever asked–is there any way to have an embedded table be flush with the top or bottom of another table?
No stupid questions - just stupid answers…
Are you talking about this:
If you put your cursor in the line between the tables, you can see the font attributes are set to “Small Fonts”; “2”. Does that help?
Subject: RE: This may be the stupidest design question I have ever asked–is there any way to have an embedded table be flush with the top or bottom of another table?
Chris,
That’s exactly it! Thanks.
Brandt
ps. having taught introductory composition at a college for two years I can tell you there are indeed stupid questions!
Subject: This may be the stupidest design question I have ever asked–is there any way to have an embedded table be flush with the top or bottom of another table?
There are two ways to remove that gap: hide-when formula of “@True” or set the font size there to 1.
Subject: Hide the text in-between, and make the border at the top of the second table 0
Here you can see two tables. The line inbtween the two tables is hidden. (you can use many ways to do this, I use 1+1=2). Make the top line of the second table 0 width.
This results in…
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