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Protecting Table Width
Hi,
is it possible to protect the width of table columns? bye Marcel |
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"That depends." In the Table Properties dialog you can set "preferred
widths" for cells and columns. These will be maintained provided that (a) you don't allow auto resizing, which can be disabled in the Table Options dialog (click Options... on the Table tab of Table Properties) and (b) you don't change them by manually dragging the column borders. The way this seems to work is that Word sometimes decides on its own to define the current width of a column as the "preferred width" and won't let you change it, but of course if you don't *want* it to change, it will! -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Marcel Gnoth" mgnoth (at) nteam.de wrote in message ... Hi, is it possible to protect the width of table columns? bye Marcel |
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Hi Suzanne,
thanx for your answer. I work with Word 2003 and I would like to protect the table. I want avoid, that users change the width of a column. I need a fixed Columnwidth because I construct new Tables from the other table. Many greetings from Berlin Marcel "Suzanne S. Barnhill" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... "That depends." In the Table Properties dialog you can set "preferred widths" for cells and columns. These will be maintained provided that (a) you don't allow auto resizing, which can be disabled in the Table Options dialog (click Options... on the Table tab of Table Properties) and (b) you don't change them by manually dragging the column borders. The way this seems to work is that Word sometimes decides on its own to define the current width of a column as the "preferred width" and won't let you change it, but of course if you don't *want* it to change, it will! -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Marcel Gnoth" mgnoth (at) nteam.de wrote in message ... Hi, is it possible to protect the width of table columns? bye Marcel |
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