### 8.5.2 Adjusting table appearance

You can fine-tune a few aspects of table appearance in WinHelp:

Rules, fill, line breaks

Graphics

Column width

Column straddles

Rules, fill, line breaks

These settings apply to all tables in the document:

[Tables]

; TableRules = None (help default), or one of the Box types:

; Box, Double, Thick, Shadow, Para, or Variable

TableRules=None

; TableFill = AsIs (default, shading is unavailable), ColorOnly, None

TableFill=AsIs

; ForceTableLineBreaks = No (default) or Yes (make soft breaks hard)

ForceTableLineBreaks=No

When ForceTableLineBreaks=Yes, Mif2Go turns line wraps in table cells into line breaks in WinHelp, which often does a poor job of wrapping text in table cells.

Graphics

If you have frames anchored inside a table cell that do not appear in the output, specify the following:

[Tables]

; TableGraphics = Standard (default, in cell), None, or Outside

; applies only to non-inline and non-runin frames anchored in cell

TableGraphics=Outside

Column width

Sometimes the font used in WinHelp is larger than the original font used in FrameMaker. The size increase can make text too large for a table cell, causing it to run into the next table cell. Mif2Go has two settings available to fine tune the cell size when this happens. You can adjust the table column width as a percentage of the original width, or change the width by a number of twips (twentieths of a point):

[Tables]

; TblColWid* rescales all table column widths in the file, using:

; Pct as the percentage to apply to the original size, 0-32766

; Add as the twips to add to the scaled result; neg to subtract

TblColWidPct=100

TblColWidAdd=0

You can use both in combination; for example, to add 20% + 360 twips:

[Tables]

TblColWidPct=20

TblColWidAdd=360

To specify the full width of tables for which column widths are percentages:

[Tables]

; TblFullWidth is the size in twips used to compute column widths when

; widths are given as percentages, default of 9360 twips (6.5 inches).

TblFullWidth=9360

Column straddles

By default, Mif2Go combines table cells that straddle columns into a single cell in WinHelp; however, you can override the default:

[Tables]

; MergeStradCells = Yes (default, combine col-straddling cells) or No

MergeStradCells=No

Note: For Word output, the default value of MergeStradCells is No (the opposite of the default for WinHelp); see §6.13 Converting tables to print RTF.

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