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Old 12-29-2016, 02:52 PM
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See in the sample provided what I am trying to accomplish.
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Old 12-29-2016, 03:37 PM
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when the line end is reached the cell expands instead of jumping to the next cell.
That is how it is supposed to work. Although you can prevent the expansion, all that will do is cause the additional content to disappear from view.

Instead of creating a separate cell for each line of text, use a single, large cell. I note, too, that your table cell paragraph alignment is set to 'left', not 'justified', so you'll never get justification anyway.

PS: Hitting Enter does NOT take you to the next cell - it adds a new paragraph to the current cell. It is the Tab key that takes you to the next cell.
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Instead of creating a separate cell for each line of text, use a single, large cell.
...but I want the dotted lines in place to have the fill in effect.

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I note, too, that your table cell paragraph alignment is set to 'left', not 'justified', so you'll never get justification anyway.
Yes, but even in "justified" no justification takes place, because it is not considered as paragraph but individual lines.

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PS: Hitting Enter does NOT take you to the next cell - it adds a new paragraph to the current cell. It is the Tab key that takes you to the next cell.
Yes, I know that. I meant hit tab, not enter. Sorry.

So, there is no way to have the dotted lines and the justification?
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...but I want the dotted lines in place to have the fill in effect.

So, there is no way to have the dotted lines and the justification?
Sure you can. See the attached.
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THANK YOU!
Ok. Please explain what you did.
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I simply removed all the cells except the top one, then applied a right tab-stop and inserted as many tabs & line breaks as were required to fill the cell and formatted them with a dotted underline. Plus I gave the cell a fixed height. Now when you start typing, the tab gradually gets pushed output the way and, when you pass the end of a line, the original content all gets pushed down one line. It's still there, but not visible.
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Brilliant!

Thanks again!
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