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From: dana@are.berkeley.edu (Dana E. Keil)
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Subject: Re: Tables in MS Word 4.0
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Date: 30 May 90 17:05:16 GMT
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In article <8258@brazos.Rice.edu> robbins@owlnet.rice.edu (Thomas Robbins) writes:
>Does anyone know how you can center entries in tables using Microsoft 
>Word 4.0 **vertically**? 
> Ideally, I would like a cell that is a 1.5 lines in height,
> with the entry centered both horizontally and
> vertically within.

What you want to do is to change the "space before" for that cell.
In the "format paragraph" dialog specify a space before that reflects
the number of lines in the largest cell in the row. If you have left
the line spacing on "auto" the line spacing is a little
bit more than the font size, a font size of 12 points is given a
line spacing of 14 points when Word is set to auto line spacing.
(I usually change the line spacing to an appropriate absolute number
rather than leaving it on auto just in order to really know what
numbers I'm dealing with). Thus, if your largest cell in the row
has four lines, you would set the space before in a single line
cell at 21 points. The line spacing for the line itself is already
14, then add 14 before to get it lined up with the second line and
add 7 to get it lined up between the second and third line; a total
of 21 points before. If you want to line up with a largest cell in
row that has an odd number of lines, you wouldn't add the half line
spacing, of course.