Thanks macropod. That didn't work, unfortunately.
I tried rotating the image and flipping the background color to see if I could obviate the need to get rid of that gap, but then I noticed that an identical gap also appears at the top of the cell. In the end, it looks like Word always places a buffer around inline images in cells (unlike, say, html tables).
In experimenting, I found that if I use a jpeg instead of a shape, I can get rid of the vertical padding, but no matter what there's still a thin strip on the right side where the background shows through. Anyway, this seems like a rather annoying flaw... my task here is maybe sort of rare, but what if I wanted to use a 1x2 table to caption a photo, with the caption area a) shaded and b) the same width as the photo? Even if I make the background of the photo cell the same shade as the document background, the caption cell still overhangs by like a pixel. (See the pink line on the right in my attached picture as an example.)
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