
SEE: Five things Microsoft got right in 2016 Step 1: Determine the cell’s size Disable the cell’s ability to adjust its size on the fly.If, on the other hand, you want to control the cell’s size, you’ll need to do the following:

In fact, it might be exactly what you want.

Figure BĪdapting to the picture is a default behavior.Īdapting to fit the picture isn’t a bad behavior. If you don’t like the size, you’ll have to resize the picture. But the bad news might be that the cell’s dimensions change at all the picture determines the cell’s size, not you. If you resize the picture in the cell, the cell’s dimensions change accordingly. In fact, the increase is significant–more than doubling its original size.

In a nutshell, you’re turning the cell into a placeholder. Fortunately, you can freeze a cell’s size so it won’t change when you insert a picture file–forcing the picture file to adapt to the cell’s size. If you’ve gone to the trouble to design a table, you probably don’t want this to happen. For more info, visit our Terms of Use page.īy default, a cell will adapt to the size of an inserted picture, which can wreck a predefined table in no time. This may influence how and where their products appear on our site, but vendors cannot pay to influence the content of our reviews. We may be compensated by vendors who appear on this page through methods such as affiliate links or sponsored partnerships.

Limiting a picture to a specific size and position is as simple as resetting a few cell properties in a Word table. How to turn a Word table cell into a picture placeholder
