In his second article on the squeezing texts series, Paul Sulzberger provides some alternative tricks that may prove useful for translators when trying to squeeze text into a table that was created for a completely different language.

Some of these tricks include the following:

Trick 1 – Try Word’s AutoFit function first.

Trick 2 – Adjust the internal margins of the cells

Trick 3 – Use Character Spacing to slightly squeeze up the text within the cell.

Read more.

See: The translation business

Also see: Squeezing a translation that’s too long into a space that’s too small – a cheat sheet for beginners