Notice the multiple paragraph marks used by this person to create space above the actual contents of the cells so that the text looks more or less centered vertically in the cells. (Actual table information changed to protect the guilty :).) Here’s a prime example of how people align text vertically in table cells in Word in the real world: This gives me a lot of good examples of how people in the real world use Word and how far we are from getting a critical mass of Word users to use Word’s features properly. In this blog, I frequently mention that I have to work with existing Word documents created by other people.
