diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d28df7c99..20de0d8a9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4313,6 +4313,14 @@ follow semantic versioning; release dates are ISO 8601.
 
 ### Tests
 
+- **A body card whose text fills its outline is held to grow with that text.** The fidelity gates
+  measure where lines stand. Were such a card's row written exactly as tall as its outline, every
+  line of it in Word would stand where it stood, the paragraph under it in LibreOffice 24.2 would
+  stand nearer the page, and the card would not grow when text is added to it in an editor.
+  `DocxBodyShapePanelTest` now holds a card whose text and padding fill it to within a quarter of a
+  point, under its default clip, which cuts nothing: its row is held at least its outline's height,
+  as is the row of a card with room to spare.
+
 - **The DOCX fidelity corpus holds its three body shape containers where the export now sets
   them.** With the boxes written as panels, Word and LibreOffice set every line of
   `narrow_container` and `rounded_card` at the page's words, and Word the paragraph under each box
diff --git a/render-docx/src/test/java/com/demcha/compose/document/backend/semantic/docx/DocxBodyShapePanelTest.java b/render-docx/src/test/java/com/demcha/compose/document/backend/semantic/docx/DocxBodyShapePanelTest.java
index 65ce5663c..b521da205 100644
--- a/render-docx/src/test/java/com/demcha/compose/document/backend/semantic/docx/DocxBodyShapePanelTest.java
+++ b/render-docx/src/test/java/com/demcha/compose/document/backend/semantic/docx/DocxBodyShapePanelTest.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 import com.demcha.compose.document.style.DocumentColor;
 import com.demcha.compose.document.style.DocumentInsets;
 import com.demcha.compose.document.style.DocumentStroke;
+import com.demcha.compose.document.style.DocumentTextStyle;
 import com.demcha.compose.document.style.DocumentTransform;
 import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.XWPFDocument;
 import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.XWPFParagraph;
@@ -360,6 +361,30 @@ void aBoxWithNoClipOrNothingToCutGrowsWithItsText() throws Exception {
                          + "them, and what follows stands up to that much lower");
     }
 
+    @Test
+    void aCardItsTextFillsGrowsWithItsTextAsOneWithRoomToSpare() throws Exception {
+        // Its default clip has nothing to cut, though its text and padding fill it, so its row is held
+        // at least its outline's height and grows with text added to it. Held exactly at that height,
+        // it would set its lines where they stand in Word, and the fidelity gates, which measure
+        // lines, would not see that it no longer grows. Here it is a quarter of a point taller than
+        // its text and padding, as the page lays them out in a taller card.
+        double outline = export(page -> page.add(pageWideCard(200).build())).placed("Text").placementHeight() + 0.25;
+        assertThat(outline).as("the text laid out at its own height, not the card's").isLessThan(200);
+        Exported exported = export(page -> page
+                .addParagraph("Above")
+                .add(pageWideCard(outline).build())
+                .addParagraph("Below"));
+
+        PlacedNode box = exported.placed("Box");
+        PlacedNode text = exported.placed("Text");
+        // The page leaves less than half a point between the foot of its text's padding and the outline's.
+        assertThat(text.placementY() - box.placementY()).isBetween(0.0, 0.5);
+        XWPFTableRow row = onlyTable(exported.document()).getRow(0);
+        assertThat(ruleOf(row)).isEqualTo(STHeightRule.AT_LEAST);
+        assertThat(heightOf(row)).isEqualTo(Math.round(outline * 20) - 2 * 20);
+        assertThat(exported.report().bySubject()).doesNotContainKeys("clipped shape container", "shape container");
+    }
+
     @Test
     void itsPaddingStandsRoundTheOutline() throws Exception {
         Exported exported = export(page -> page
@@ -436,6 +461,18 @@ private static ShapeContainerBuilder card(ClipPolicy clip) {
                         .build());
     }
 
+    /** A card as wide as the page between its margins, holding a heading and a paragraph. */
+    private static ShapeContainerBuilder pageWideCard(double height) {
+        return new ShapeContainerBuilder().name("Box").roundedRect(328, height, 12).fillColor(SURFACE).stroke(BORDER)
+                .topLeft(new SectionBuilder().name("Text").padding(DocumentInsets.of(12)).spacing(4)
+                        .addParagraph(p -> p.text("A rounded card").textStyle(DocumentTextStyle.builder().size(12).build()))
+                        .addParagraph(p -> p.text("Its text runs over three lines from the card's top left corner, "
+                                                  + "and the card is just tall enough to hold them with its padding "
+                                                  + "round them: a line more, and the card needs to be taller.")
+                                .textStyle(DocumentTextStyle.builder().size(10).build()))
+                        .build());
+    }
+
     private static DocumentNode note() {
         return new ParagraphBuilder().name("Note").text(NOTE).build();
     }