[Biddy]

Hi Doug
Thanks for this and sorry for the late reply (I've been on another job.) I
resurrected an old copy of this table and tried this, but it didn't want to
obey me! But it is definitely something I should have tried, and will
remember this for next time. (There WILL be a 'next time'!)

Meantime a friend said "have you got any Track Changes on?" - and I
discovered that I had, and after I killed that things seemed much better. But
still your way would have been more efficient after that, if it had worked.

Again thanks for responding.

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

Select the whole table and then use the TableProperties dialog to set the
column widths to the desired values.

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Biddy" wrote in message
...
I have a large table (multipage) with 6 columns. I created it by joining up
other (same column) tables. When I added some header bits from somewhere
else, my coulumn widths started changing - seemingly with minds of their
own
[sigh, what's new?] - so that there's, say, 3 pages of this and that width
columns, then two pages of other widths. I keep trying highlighting the
vertical lines and dragging, and sometimes this works, but sometimes
_other_
columns also change width. This is almost impossible to explain; I hope
someone out there has had a similar experience so they'll know what I'm on
about...!

Thanks