Hi Pam,
An easier way, if you've got Excel, might be to:
.. copy the table in Word
.. paste it into Excel
.. delete the table in Word
.. copy the table in Excel
.. paste it into Word
While you've got the table in Excel, you can also do the sorting there. Excel's sorting functions are more powerful than Word's.
Cheers
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macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]
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"Pam F" wrote in message ...
Not sure if I know how to do # 2 and especially using a character as a
separator. Can you give me more detail?
Pam
"StevenM" wrote:
Perhaps there is a better way, but the way I handle the problem is:
(1) convert the table to text; then
(2) convert the text back into a table.
I'm assuming that by "varying column widths" you mean some rows have
different column widths than other rows, and not merely that some columns
have widths different from other columns. Also, you need to pick a character
which is not used in your table to be used to separate the columns when you
covert the table to text, and then use the same character when converting the
text back into a table. This will fix your problem.
Steven Craig Miller
"Pam F" wrote:
My long table of 710 rows with 14 columns (text) in Word 2004 now has
varying column widths. This is making it impossible to do sorts. I've tried
to set equal column widths globally, but I must be doing something wrong.
Hope someone can help - it's for a book project and I'm running out of
patience and time. 