Fitting Text Into Cells

Way too useful, thank you! Solved the messed up table formatting in our school document in a minute :)

This works perfectly if your text is too long, but if your text is shorter than the cell width, Word expands the spacing, which is really obnoxious to read.

Is there a solution if you want Word to *only* scrunch the text if it would normally wrap, but *not* expand the text if it's shorter than the cell width?

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You are THE MASTER! I really appreciate your knowledge and you are my go to person for EVERYTHING Word!!! Thank you for sharing :)

Hello Mr. Wyatt,

Thank you very much for the accurate answer, exactly what i wanted to fit my text into the table cells with a minimum left intend of 0,1cm.

MSc, Electrical Eng. Jim Varsos

Ludo - Note the last paragraph in the tip, above. Word adjusts the width of the text horizontally only; it does not adjust the height of the text vertically.

-Allen

Dear Mr. Wyatt,

I tried your sugestion to fit text into a cell, but this is not always working.
I'm using Word 2010.
I placed an address in the cell, see picrure, with a font size too large to fit in the cell, and hoped with the tip T006081_Fitting_Text_Into_Cells.html that i could resize the text to fit entirely in the cell, but as you can see, it doesn't fit at all.

the idea behind it is to place text into table cells (adhesive labels) with a larger font than it should be, and afterwards resize it to fit in the cell.
cells differ according to the selected labels used, so a 'autofit' could be the way to do it, but no luck.

Is there an other solution for this issue?


best regards,
Ludo

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I'm creating a table with short width cells, however it won't let me type in more than 1 character, it just adds the additional characters vertically downward. Even if I stretch the width of the cell to about 1", the additional text begins wrapping about a 1/2" from the right side of the cell. Any idea how to adjust the cell to add more text?

This doesn't work

this tip does not work for Office 365 there is no auto fit text to cell option

I would like the text to shrink but also wrap around in the cell rather than continuously keep shrinking. The fit text seems to over-ride the wrap option. Any ideas?

I have used pdf forms and that function is available, also, but this one needs to be in Word. Just can't quite come up with the process to keep a properly formatted document once it is sent to users.

In other words, Beth, you'd like a way to make the text "shrink to fit" the way it shrinks automatically in PowerPoint. Interesting idea.

This is almost what I need, but not quite. I have a template with a question at the top of each section, and I want users to type their answers in the space below. The text should wrap as they type and keep normal formatted font/size if they stay within the box limits. If text runs too long, I want it to shrink the font size of everything they have written to stay within the box and not stretch the box.

It DOES reduce the size of text that is too long for a table cell It ALSO spreads out text that is "too short" for a table cell, giving something like this:

T o o S h o r t

Need to just scrunch the long ones to fit, but don't mess with the ones that DO fit.

Thanks for the good writeup

If set-width is so great... can I start the process over again... and create msg. with less characters?¿?