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Old 02-08-2016, 09:54 AM
Ulodesk Ulodesk is offline Floating table loses alignment Windows 7 64bit Floating table loses alignment Office 2013
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Default Floating table loses alignment

With my credentials, I should be able to solve this, but it has remained a stubborn problem. In case there is something I'm missing, here's the issue.



In one corporate proposal template, a callout box is a wrap-around, two-row table, rather than a text box. The table is used, because the header row, which is filled with a color, also contains a flush-left square logo; the heading row style is indented to start to the right of it. Since the box's width needs to be adjustable, a fixed-width graphic combining the logo and color won't work. Otherwise, a single-celled, non-breaking table could be use with the graphic as the first paragraph.

This callout-box table is in the template as an Autotext item and, when inserted from the Autotext menu, falls perfectly with the right-hand border aligned with the right margin. The table positioning is set to right-aligned.

However, proposal writing being what it is, the two-row box moves around in process, sometimes splitting between pages, or someone drags it to a different paragraph, and the right edge moves slightly away from the right margin, in or out. Subsequently, applying right alignment aligns the right table edge in the margin, aligning the right cell inset to the margin. The only way to restore the right alignment, without running the text to the inner edge, appears to be entering a fixed width from the left page edge to the left side of the table, which is trial-and-error unless I stop what I'm doing and start calculating.

I am interested to know what causes this behavior and if there is a way to restore the right alignment that I am missing.

Thanks as always.
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