Row auto-expanding when text rotated

[youssefsem]

Hi,

I'm new to tables in affinity publisher. When I set text to be vertical (rotate 270 degrees), I saw that the height of the row auto-expanded as I inserted new letters (see screenshot). How can I deactivate this behavior?

Regards,

[h_d]

In the Table panel, expand the Baseline Grid tab and deselect Use Baseline Grid:

 

I don't understand why, may be an unintended consequence...

[youssefsem]

Thanks @h_d for your answer. As you can see in my first screenshot, Use Baseline Grid is deactivated so I cannot select or deselect it. I tried to change different options in the table panel but without any result. Any idea how to fix this?

[h_d]

9 minutes ago, youssefsem said:

 in my first screenshot, Use Baseline Grid is deactivated

In that screenshot you have the second row selected, not the first. Your subsequent screenshots don't show the layers panel. Not sure if that's relevant - could you double-check?

[youssefsem]

Thank you @h_d for taking the time to help me with this. All the rows of the table have the same behavior.

I'm still stuck on this and I'm beginning to consider using text objects on top of the table to get around this.

[h_d]

No worries, if you could upload your .afpup file it would help. I can clearly get 270º rotated cells to behave the way you want so ultimately you shouldn't need floating frames.

[youssefsem]

I attached my .afpup file.

Thanks.

TABLE.afpub

[h_d]

Very strange. My only thought (and it's really just a guess, based on the Calibri font in the offending cells) is that the original table is from an Excel spreadsheet, possibly with text wrap turned off. I can't test that properly myself as I don't have Excel, but if I export an Apple Numbers table as an .xlsx document I see something very similar. 

Hopefully someone else will take a look at your .afpub and find a solution, because I'm out of ideas 🤯

[youssefsem]

I didn't use an Excel file, in fact I just chose calibiri because I'm used to use MS office products like word or Excel.

Im' out of ideas too. I hope someone would find a solution.

[walt.farrell]

I can't see what's wrong, either.

[Brian_J]

I can't figure out what the issue is in that table, but when I create a new table with the Table Tool in the TABLE.afpub file, the new table doesn't have the problem. Have you tried deleting the table and creating a new one?

[lacerto]

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