Draw table pencil - making my layout all whacky!

[Aishaa]

Hi - I am trying to add a cell to my table, but whenever I do try to put a line in with the pencil, the whole layout rearranges itself to something totally whacky......has anyone got any ideas as to how to avoid this?

Why does FP do this when it seems that there is a reasonable amount of space to accomodate another cell?

TIA
Aishaa

 

[DeZiner]

That's MS for you. Rather than drawing in another can you split an existing? FP trys to redraw your existing to match HTML "Standars" I think it's just thinking what your doing is wrong and making it right. Frustrating in deed. DeZiner
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[Aishaa]

Nopes, splitting the cells just made the whole table larger....

Gee this is frustrating

 

[jcb5565]

Aishaa

I am not sure what you are trying to do. So I will give you some information that might help. If you want to have two cells inside the table, first go to table properties and set your width at 100%. Now go to cell properties and set each to pixels if you know the width of what you are going to put in each cell. Or you could set the two cells to 50% each. If this dosen't help give me more details.
JCB

 

[sierraonsite]

Aishaa,
I think you may be half way there. In FrontPage, Normal View - Go ahead and split the cells(right mouse clicking) like DeZiner mentioned, then when you have the cells that you need, hightlight the cells that you need *reclaimed*, then right click and select Merge Cells.

Cell splitting and cell Merging should get the table you need. I find that I have to add and then subtract(by Merging Cells) in order to get odd shaped tables.

Jim