

The indent controls can be adjusted so that text fits in the cell space. The second set of formatting bars adjust the positioning of the text in the cell by either increasing or decreasing the indent: Complete pixel control is possible and shown later in this tutorial. The movement of the column widths have a snap to grid motion, meaning that there are set points and movement is not continuous. When the cursor is positioned in a cell two bars appear (see image below) indicating the width of the cell and column These are two gray bars can be used to adjusted the width of the cell and column. The ruler should now appear at the top of the document just below the ribbon Then click on the Ruler radar button on the Show/hide panel of the view ribbon tab.

If the ruler is not visible it can be easily opened clicking on the view tab on the ribbon which is at the top of the page. The ruler bar is at the top of the open document and below the icon ribbon.

The first stage of formatting the contents of a cell in a table is to use the features available in the ruler feature. (This process could also be described as nudging the contents of a cell)
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