It was really strange, if I ran the stripmtext on a single string it worked
if I tried larger selections sets it did not.
I saw the formatting for the height was there but didn't know how to remove it for all the text that I had to change.
I wish I had seen Lee's Unformat String.
I ended up having to destroy the drawing then rebuild it from scratch for the most part.
It's taken me 2 days to get it "correct"
sigh..
appreciate all the feedback..
I'll know next time.
I think what you want is (vla-setrowheight objtable ht) you have to repeat for all the rows you want to change, you will need (vla-get-rows objtable) to work out how many rows, usually start row count at 2 Title & header, so repeat = rows - 2. There is also textheight and text alignment to consider.
list of methods for a table.txt