Help with Tables (Specifically Margins)

[Dynamic Office]

Hello,

I'm hoping someone familiar with Tables within Indesign will be able to help me,

I've created a table with 54 Rows, 11 Collums which is to be printed on a landscape a4 page, I'm limited to only using 1 page.

As I understand, the logic InDesign uses for the size each grid is, is determined by the font size which sits inside,

As you can see from this image, the highlighted text is size 6pt font, the text below is 3pt (Eza, Phoenix), the blue box indicates the margin difference between each font.

(PLEASE CLICK IMAGE AS RIGHT SIDE HAS BEEN CUT)

In order for all 54 rows to fit onto the A4 landscape page, I've had to make the font size 3pt to get the perfect size grid, however, size 3pt text as you can imagine is almost illegible because of how small it is.

As you can see from the image above, I've copied the size 6pt font (Citadel) into its own text box and moved it down and it fits perfectly with enough margin between.

But I don't want to have text boxes over the top of this table, I'd rather it all neatly be one table.

I thought adjusting the row height would solve this but actually, it just makes the text disappear,

Does anyone have a solution to my problem? (Hopefully, I've explained this well enough - Let me know if more information is needed)

Windows PC, Indesign CC 2018

[SJRiegel · Accepted solution]

Change your row heights from At Least to Exactly when you set your size, set your top and bottom cell padding to 0 (mine in the image is set to .556 in) and center your text vertically in the row.

[Dynamic Office]

Thank you!