Thankyou luigi. The suggestion provided below worked. I wish I understood why context thought that a cell height to two rows were needed, but the combination of \hbox and alignment of lohi is a reasonable workaround.
 
-Lance
 
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Lance Larsen <lance.c.larsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I created the following table, but I am running into a mysterious
> problem. When I include the text 'Geometry Calulations' in row 2, the
> table row expands as if this text takes up lines of text. However the
> text fits well within the cell length, and the text itself remains on
> one line. If I delete 'Geometry Calculations', the height of row 2 is
> the height of one line of text. How do I fix this? I have included
> snapshots of what I am getting with and without 'Geometry
> Calculations' included. Any help or insight is appreciated.
> 
> \setupTABLE[c][1][width=0.16\textwidth]
> \setupTABLE[c][2,3,4][width=0.13\textwidth]
> \setupTABLE[c][5][width=0.20\textwidth, align=middle]
> \setupTABLE[c][6][width=0.25\textwidth, align=middle]
> \bTABLE[width=0.5\textwidth, rulethickness=0.5pt]
> \bTR \bTD[nc=2]   \bf ~\cb Preliminary \cb Final    \eTD
> \bTD[align=middle] \bf Revision \eTD \bTD[align=middle] X \eTD \bTD
> \bf Document ID \eTD \bTD         \DocID         \eTD \eTR
> \bTR \bTD[nc=2]   \bf ~Document Title:  \eTD \bTD[nc=4,align=middle]
>  Geometry Calculations  \eTD \eTR
> \bTR \bTD[nc=2]   \bf ~Originating Discipline:  \eTD
> \bTD[nc=4,align=middle]                               \OrigDisc
>                                               \eTD \eTR
> \bTR \bTD[nc=2]   \bf ~Effective Date:  \eTD \bTD[nc=3]  \tfx  ~\cb
> Approval Date \sp\sp\cb Other: ________   \eTD \bTD
> Page~\pagenumber~of~\totalnumberofpages  \eTD \eTR
> \bTR \bTD         \bf ~Issued for: \eTD \bTD[nc=5,align=middle]
> \tfx Phase 1 Design \cb\sp Phase 2 Design \cb\sp Phase 3 Design \cb\sp
> Input to DCD \cb\sp N/A \cb         \eTD \eTR
> \eTABLE
> 
> -Lance Larsen
 
\bTR \bTD[nc=2,style=bold,align={flushleft,lohi}] \hbox{~Document
Title} \eTD \bTD[nc=4,align=middle]  Geometry Calculations  \eTD \eTR
 
seems to fix the things.
 
 
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luigi