One of the unfortunate side effects of 4.x level browsers (and above) being able to resize the text displayed “on the fly” is that this can throw off table formatting as the table cells will grow vertically to hold the resized text. If you’re using a table to place a ‘frame’ around content, this can cause all sorts of formatting problems.

Here’s a trick which you can do in NOF 4.0 (and 4.01) to build a “frame” around your content which will grow and shrink with the text growing and shrinking:

1. Create a 3 x 3 table usng the table tool:
2. Shift-Click to select the cells in the left “column” of the table, then right-click on the selected cells
   Select “Merge Cells” from the pop-up menu that appears. Repeat these two steps for the rightmost “column”
3. Drag-and-drop the content you wish to have framed (whether it’s a text object, graphic, or even another table) into the center cell of this table.

   CONTENT CONTENT CONTENT CONTENT

4. Now, set the Background color for the top, bottom, left and right cells, fit the center cell to the content you dropped in, and set the Table Borders, Margins and Padding to 0.

   CONTENT CONTENT CONTENT CONTENT

If you use the “Increase Font “ and “Decrease Font” commands in your browser, you should see that, even when the last table changes size, the blue ‘frame’ which is around the center content remains intact!