At 08:18 14/05/2008 -0400, John Kaufmann wrote:
In a message dated 2008.05.14 06:24 -0500, Brian Barker wrote:
[Case:A]
If you want the row height to adjust to its contents (and be no larger),
[Action:A]
select "Fit to size" and
leave the height in the box at something suitably small.
[Case:B]
If you want the row height to adjust to its contents but to have a
particular minimum size,
[Action:B]
select "Fit to size" and
set the minimum height in the box.
Sorry to be dense, but I read, and re-read, and still wondered How
are these different? Doesn't the condition "If you want the row
height to adjust to its contents" *imply* "and be no larger"? In
both of your cases, doesn't "Fit to size" mean:
(a) the row size will be at least ("particular minimum size")
whatever is specified with "Fit to size", and
(b) it will grow as needed (but "no larger") to accommodate the
row's contents?
- or have I missed something?
You are right in that they operate in the same way. They must do,
since you are doing the same thing both times. But no: the way "Fit
to size" works doesn't imply that the row will never be larger than
the contents require, since the value set acts as a minimum. If this
is ever brought into play - if it is large enough or the contents
small enough - the row height will be greater than the contents require.
It may help to see the suggestions as having separate purposes. If
you wish to set a minimum row height - possibly greater, that is,
than whatever is necessary to accommodate the contents - you can
specify it. If not, you simply set the row height to something
smaller than will conceivably be required (e.g. the default 0.01
cm). The actual value set, if sufficiently small, will never become
significant.
I thought it would help answer the original enquiry to show how and
why the very small default value for row height makes sense when used
with the "Fit to size" option.
Brian Barker
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