Was it working fine previously with those versions of Word & Excel?

I have had similar problems, but it was when I changed from Word 97 to 2002.
Now whenever I paste an Excel table into Word, I have to deselect Table |
Table Properties | Table | Preferred width, then decrease the default cell
margins after hitting the Table Options button, and punch in my preferred
width for each column under the column tab. I repeart the process every time
I paste the same Excel table with new data. Whereas before, I'd fiddle with
the Excel table 2 or 3 times to get it to work in Word, and never have to
deal with it again.


I am using Word 2002 & Excel 2002 for XP Pro.

I have been copying and pasting tables from Excel to Word for a long time.
Today something new happened. When I pasted the table into my Word document, Word resized at least one of my columns.