Pictures That Become Truncated In A Word Table

To start off, Truncated in this scenario simply means partially cut off or partially visible.

This may not happen a lot but if it should there is a likely culprit and it is easy to fix.

Scenario:

The operator wrote the following:

"A picture I have inserted in a table cell shows only the bottom half. Here As I recall, when this happened once a number of years ago (8 years, maybe?), the solution was to set text wrap to inline. But whenever I try this, that choice is grayed out. If I choose different positioning in the cell (e.g. centered), the picture moves to the center but still only half of it is visible."

He goes on to say the following:

"I've attached a copy of the page. As you can see, the cell is much bigger than the picture, which is, in fact, simply a copy of the little 'arrow' icon in the table just above it."

What happened in this case was the following:

The line spacing associated with "this table" has somehow been changed to "Exactly 14". Most probably, text was copied from a website and that threw the line spacing off. They should have used Paste Special - Unformatted Text which would have stripped the text before it entered the document and whatever was waiting within the table in terms of formatting would take effect when the text was pasted in.

Note: The problem was a vertical cutoff of the display of the picture. If it had been a horizontal cutoff I would have attempted to widen the column width or see if "Automatically Resize To Fit Cell" had been unchecked under Table Properties - Options. Either way to deal with the vertical cutoff issue do the following:

1. In Print Layout View go to the table and click on the target symbol that comes up on the left hand side. That will highlight the entire table.

2. Go to the Page Layout Tab and under "Paragraph" click on the little box to the right and when the dialog opens up change the Line Spacing over to "Single" instead of "Exactly" which should now cause the entire picture to display.

If this should happen to you, you will remember what caused it and this will save you the time of trying to trouble shoot.


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