<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello Pete,<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><snip>></font></blockquote></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Specify a complete second row of empty values between the two rows.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\begin{tabular}{c | c | c}<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">A & B & C\\\hline<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> & &\\[-9pt]<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">F & F & F<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\end{tabular}<br></blockquote><br><br>I did not receive the original message – but what about this?<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>\usepackage{array}<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>\setlength{\extrarowheight}{.25ex}<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>\begin{tabular}{c | c | c}<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>A & B & C\\\hline<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>F & F & F<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>\end{tabular<br></blockquote><div><br></div>I had made a simple error in using \begin{tabular}, namely:</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">\begin{tabular}{c | c | c}<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">A & B & C\\<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">\hline\\[-9pt]<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">F & F & F<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">\end{tabular}</blockquote></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div>The above was a simplification of a more complicated example wherein I was trying to 'lift' the line <F F F> because of too much intervening whitespace above the line <F F F>.</div><div><br></div><div>I have yet to try out the various solutions on the original problem.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for showing how \extrarowheight can be used.<br><br></div><div>And thanks to everyone who responded so quickly. I'm usually a bit slow in replying. :-(</div><div><br></div><div><br><div>Don Green Dragon<br><a href="mailto:fergdc@Shaw.ca">fergdc@Shaw.ca</a><br><br></div><br></div></body></html>