Specifying the cell and table size

Using Table→Cell width→Set width resp. Table→Cell height→Set height you may specify the width or height of a cell. In fact, the specified width (or height) may be taken into account in three different ways:

Minimum mode

The actual width of the cell will be the minimum of the specified width and the width of the box inside the cell.

Exact mode

The width of the cell will be precisely the specified one.

Maximum mode

The actual width of the cell will be the maximum of the specified width and the width of the box inside the cell.

The border width and the cell padding (to be explained below) are taken into account in the size of the box inside the cell.

You may also specify the width and the height of the entire table in Table→Special table properties. In particular, you may specify the table to run over the entire width of a paragraph. When specifying a width (or height) for the entire table, you may specify how the unused space is distributed over the cells using Table→Special cell properties→Distribute unused space. By default, the unused space is equally distributed.