Indent and height options not working in Stata putdocx table

[Jill Caviglia-Harris]

Does anyone know if it is possble to use the height and indent options for individual rows in a putdocx table? And, if not is there another way to indent the text of different table rows? I would like to set an indent for categories of variables in a table I am creating (following Schwabish 2020 article on table best practices) but am unable to use either the height() or indent() option in the red line of code here (I set the number of rows, etc in locals above this point in the code that I include below:

local i=`var_row`n''
foreach var of varlist `var_cat`n'' {
local lab: variable label `var'
quietly sum `var' if year==2009 & hhpanel_09_19==1 & not_in_panel==.
putdocx table tableyr(`i',1) = ("`var'")
putdocx table tableyr(`i',2) = ("`lab'")
putdocx table tableyr(`i',3) = (r(mean)), nformat(%5.2f) halign(right)
putdocx table tableyr(`i',4) = (r(sd)), nformat(%5.2f) halign(right)
local i=`i'+1
}

What I can't understand is why this creates an error
putdocx table tableyr(`i',2) = ("`lab'"), indent(0.1pt)

and why this creates an error
putdocx table tableyr(`i',2) = ("`lab'"), height(12pt)

without these options I can create a table like this:

	Difference-in-Differences Sample				Matched Samples
	2009 Sample (n=274)		2019 Sample (n=274)		Matching Social Media (n=1136)		Matching Coops (n=878)
	Mean	Std. Dev.	Mean.	Std. Dev.	Mean	Std. Dev.	Mean.	Std. Dev.
Outcomes
pmilkwetnominal	0.42	0.09	1.02	0.17	1.05	0.21	1.06	0.21
pmilkdrynominal	0.53	0.11	1.04	0.54	1.08	0.52	1.09	0.54
cattle_price	1228.89	553.33	2491.71	1302.53	2513.86	1474.88	2462.31	1510.42
calf_price	.	.	1040.87	679.56	950.98	483.44	916.31	406.68
coffee_price	160.05	177.62	271.43	44.13	253.75	64.02	274.80	159.53
innovative_cattle	1.38	0.74	0.97	0.66	1.03	0.71	1.05	0.71
innovative_infra	0.00	0.00	0.31	0.50	0.31	0.52	0.34	0.54
innovative_land	0.17	0.37	0.70	0.97	0.70	0.97	0.74	0.98
innovative_count	1.54	0.82	1.97	1.46	2.05	1.53	2.13	1.54
Treatments
celldum	0.78	0.41	0.91	0.28	0.95	0.21	0.96	0.20
socialmedia	0.00	0.00	0.67	0.47	0.75	0.43	0.66	0.47
unions	1.16	0.90	0.62	0.83	0.55	0.71	0.80	0.73

but would prefer one like this:

	Difference-in-Differences Sample				Matched Samples
	2009 Sample (n=274)		2019 Sample (n=274)		Matching Social Media (n=1136)		Matching Coops (n=878)
	Mean	Std. Dev.	Mean.	Std. Dev.	Mean	Std. Dev.	Mean.	Std. Dev.
Outcomes
pmilkwetnominal	0.42	0.09	1.02	0.17	1.05	0.21	1.06	0.21
pmilkdrynominal	0.53	0.11	1.04	0.54	1.08	0.52	1.09	0.54
cattle_price	1228.89	553.33	2491.71	1302.53	2513.86	1474.88	2462.31	1510.42
calf_price	.	.	1040.87	679.56	950.98	483.44	916.31	406.68
coffee_price	160.05	177.62	271.43	44.13	253.75	64.02	274.80	159.53
innovative_cattle	1.38	0.74	0.97	0.66	1.03	0.71	1.05	0.71
innovative_infra	0.00	0.00	0.31	0.50	0.31	0.52	0.34	0.54
nnovative_land	0.17	0.37	0.70	0.97	0.70	0.97	0.74	0.98
innovative_count	1.54	0.82	1.97	1.46	2.05	1.53	2.13	1.54
Treatments
celldum	0.78	0.41	0.91	0.28	0.95	0.21	0.96	0.20
socialmedia	0.00	0.00	0.67	0.47	0.75	0.43	0.66	0.47
unions	1.16	0.90	0.62	0.83	0.55	0.71	0.80	0.73

Thanks for any hlep or advice!

[Jill Caviglia-Harris]

Sorry the list serve does not allow for table indenting or spacing I relaize the two tables now look the same.

[Mark Horowitz]

I think your best bet is to use spaces to indent. Here's your code with 2 spaces in front of `lab':

putdocx table tableyr(`i',2) = ("  `lab'")

"indent" is actually a table option - it indents the whole table from the left margin of the document.
The above command is about modifying content of a cell. And unfortunately, there is no indent option for cells.

"height" is actually a row option - it sets the height of the whole row. So, you'd write:

putdocx table tableyr(`i',2), height(12pt)

[Mark Horowitz]

Correction for the second line of code. It should be

putdocx table tableyr(`i',.), height(12pt)

To change the row height, it must be for all columns - you cannot target a single column. So the "." captures all columns.