Go to Table | Alignment | Cell Margins | Default cell spacing | Allow spacing between cells. While cell margins are the space between the text and the edge of the cell, cell spacing puts space around each of the cells.Ĭell spacing has a surprising effect on the look of a Word Table with single line borders. Word’s Table Options have an interesting choice, Cell Spacing. When space is tight, reducing the default left & right cell margins can help fit a table or contents into the available space. Change the Top & Bottom cell margins to separate the lines and improve readability. Change default margins Select Layout > Margins > Custom Margins. Here’s a single row, highlighted a little by increasing the top & bottom cell margins.Ĭell margins are useful to separate lines in a table, especially when there’s no gridlines. In Margins, use the Up and Down arrows to enter the values you want. UNcheck the box ‘Same at the whole table’ then change the margin settings. Select the column, row or cell you want to change then go to Table Layout | Table | Properties | Cell | Options. Open a Word document and click File on the top-left corner.
How does this happen, and how to get it back to your document 1. But sometimes you may encounter an awkward situation the scroll bar disappears. Table cell margins can be changed for a row, column or even a single cell, but it’s nowhere near the main Cell Margins ribbon button. In Word document you can quickly find the wanted content through dragging the scroll bar. You can, of course have different margins on different sides: While the ruler will not appear along the vertical margin of your document in the Draft layout, it will display along the top. If you prefer to work in the Draft layout, rather than the Print layout, the ruler works similarly in that view. Here’s the large cell margins (left) compared to zero cell margins (right). How to Display the Microsoft Ruler in the Draft Layout in Word. The margins we’ve selected above are quite large, just to show you clearly how his setting changes your table. Step 3: Click the Print Layout view in the Document Views section of the ribbon at the top of the window.
Step 2: Click the View tab at the top of the window. In the Table Options dialog that opens, use the spinners to incrementally change each of the four margins, or simply type in the margin that you want into each field Top, Bottom, Left or Right. Step 1: Open the Word 2010 window where your document is currently displayed incorrectly. Then click Cell Margins in the Alignment group.
To change the cell margins, we again click in the table and go to the Layout tab on the right. In Word 2010 you do this via: File -> Options -> Advanced, and deselect the setting 'Scale content for A4 or 8.5 x 11' paper sizes' in the Print section. They can be set separately for the top, bottom, and either side of the cells. Ive solved this problem in previous versions by simply deselecting print scaling in Microsoft Word or in Distiller. Cell Margins and Cell Spacing are two important settings in any Word Table but they aren’t used much and not well understood.Ĭell margins are the spaces between your text and the edge of the cell.