Table cell does not shrink when decreasing horizontal or vertical margin

[tdoJLDMA]

Greetings:

Happy and healthy New Year to all.

I've noticed that when increasing the horizontal and vertical margin of a table cells in AutoCAD LT 2018.1.2 O.161.0.0 by using RMB properties, the cells update and show the change after committing.  However, when decreasing the value back to zero, the cell stays as is.  This behavior is the same in AutoCAD LT 2019.  Is there a way to force the cell back to zero margin?

Much appreciate your help on this.

[pendean]

RMB?

[tdoJLDMA]

Sorry for the abbreviation.  RMB = Right mouse buttion.

[pendean]

I'm not seeing that here: but maybe I'm not doing what you are doing, walk me through the steps please.

Also, are you using a customize TABLSTYLE with all the correct settings you want/crave, or are you manually editing the default to get it where you want and hoping it will ignore the TABLSTYLE settings? The latter is the wrong way to do it all IMHO.

AND... are you locking your cell formatting or leaving them unlocks? Never hurts, stops accidental changes to formatting.

[tdoJLDMA]

Thanks in advance for your help.

I attach the sample file for you to try out. 

Please try to decrease the horizontal and vertical cell margin to "zero" or any lower number than .100 and .150 currently.  Does the cell margin shrink to your set value or stay as is?

You can always increase these values and the cell margin will grow accordingly but it doesn't shrink and seems to be locked in if you decrease them.

[pendean · Accepted solution]

Looks like you are simply ignoring the CELL HEIGHT setting for the row

Which would get you what you want correctly

[tdoJLDMA]

Thank you for pointing that little detail out.

If AutoCAD take the increased value into consideration and grows the cell margin automatically, should it also be able to take into account the decrease value and shrink the cell margin automatically provided that every other parameter stays the same?

[pendean]

I always start (and usually go no further than) with Cell height to achieve the same results: after that "margins" can come into play if you need to give more room to more text in a cell (like your last rows). But then, why wouldn't you just use the Cell Height setting again?

If you want perfect cells all the time, use MSExcel then link that table into AutoCAD.

[tdoJLDMA]

Thank you for the suggestion.

I will keep these in mind and will experiment with Excel linking and embedding. 

Do you happen to know what happen if you send the AutoCAD DWG file with linking and embedding Excel to a supplier or customer?  Do you need to attach the Excel files as well?

[pendean]

yes, you will need to include all external relevant files: ETRANSMIT command simplifies bundling all needed files for the task of shipping drawings to others.

[tdoJLDMA]

Thanks for all the help.

In this case, I seriously doubt the Excel linking and embedding solution will fly with our engineering management team.