By setting VPad to 0, you may end up with pics overlapping the top/bottom cell borders. By setting HPad to 0, you'll be back to your previous issue with text occupying the full cell width.

I cannot see how you could end up with rows being split across a page break, as all you have in each cell is either a single pic or a single line of text. Plus, unless you've modified your version of the Caption Style to have the 'Keep with Next' attribute, captions and their pics would be forced to appear on the same page.

The display issue may be related to your display driver.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]