Nope, no Word weirdness. I created the table from scratch in Frame. There must be a setting someplace that I'm missing....
> -----Original Message----- > From: Fred Ridder [mailto:docudoc at hotmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 3:21 PM > To: Lin Surasky > Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: RE: Table Cell Alignment > > Well, unless Adobe broke something in FM7.2, I think there is > something peculiar going on with your document. > > I have FM7.1 on my Windows XP laptop, and constructed a test > table similar to what you have described. It works perfectly. > All asterisks are (almost) centered both horizontally and > vertically, and move up or down as the number of lines in the > description column contract or expand. > > Was the original table imported from Word, by any chance? If > so, you might want to try converting the table to text and > then back to a table, then re-tagging the cells, all of which > *should* get rid of any lingering Word weirdness. > > -Fred Ridder > > >From: "Lin Surasky" <Lin.Surasky at retalix.com> > >To: "Stuart Rogers" <srogers at phoenix-geophysics.com> > >CC: framers at lists.frameusers.com > >Subject: RE: Table Cell Alignment > >Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:03:20 -0500 > > > >Hi, Stuart- > > > >You know, I realized this after I sent the message off. But I > >substituted Xs for the asterisks and it doesn't change things. The > >Xs/asterisks are literally touching the top rule of the table cell. > > > >The anchored frame idea is a good way to work around it, although if > >there's a setting I'm missing, I'd prefer to fix it... > > > >Thanks! > >Lin > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Stuart Rogers [mailto:srogers at phoenix-geophysics.com] > > > Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 3:00 PM > > > To: Lin Surasky > > > Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com > > > Subject: Re: Table Cell Alignment > > > > > > Lin Surasky wrote: > > > > Hi all- > > > > > > > > Is there a known issue with vertical alignment in table > > > cells (FM 7.2 > > > > on Windows XP, unstructured)? > > > > > > > > I don't use tables very often, but I have a small one that > > > has a few > > > > narrow columns that contain asterisks to indicate whether a > > > condition > > > > is met, and one column of text that describes the > solution based > > > > on where the asterisks fall. > > > > > > > > I want the asterisks to be centered in the table cell, so I > > > assigned > > > > them all a paragraph tag that defines both their horizontal and > > > > vertical alignment as centered. > > > > > > > > What I'm getting is top alignment for the first row (below > > > the header > > > > row and the only single-line row in the table), center > > > alignment for > > > > the third row, which is the tallest row, and > > > > top-to-center-well-I-guess-it's-close-enough alignment for > > > the rest of > > > > the rows. > > > > > > > > The default table cell margins are all even (4.0 pt), and > > > there are no > > > > format overrides, either at the paragraph level or at the > > > table format > > > > level (as far as I can tell...). > > > > > > > > What else should I be looking at? > > > > > > Lin, > > > > > > I think what you're seeing is just the fact the an > asterisk is (in > > > most > > > fonts) located at the top of the cap height or the > ascender height, > > > in other words, not vertically centred within its own character > > > space. > > > > > > The asterisk *looks* centred in the tallest row only because your > > > eye can't judge precisely enough to see that it's > slightly too high; > > > in the shortest row, the difference is more obvious. > > > > > > You could centre an asterisk as a text line in a small anchored > > > frame (maybe tweaking the A-frame's Distance above > baseline), then > > > copy/paste into your cells. > > > > > > HTH, > > > > > > -- > > > Stuart Rogers > > > Technical Communicator > > > Phoenix Geophysics Limited > > > Toronto, ON, Canada > > > +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 > > > > > > srogers phoenix-geophysics com > > > > > > "It is not enough that I succeed. > > > Others must fail." > > > > > > -- Oscar Wilde > > _________________________________________________________________ > A place for moms to take a break! > http://www.reallivemoms.com?ocid=TXT_TAGHM&loc=us > >