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How to disable self-adjusting tables?
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I frequently use tables in Word (2003) to create forms and to format documents for printing. One problem I continually face is that Word insists in resizing the tables to fit the contents. This despite going to Tables / table properties / options and deselecting "Automatically adjust size to contets". Even after having done this, Word still refuses to let me manually adjust the size of the cells and columns. If I double click on a column border, the column inmediately shrinks (or expands) to fit the content, and no amount of clicking will persuade it to do otherwise. Ctrl. Z undoes the action, of course, but we're back on square one. Sometimes by sheer bludgeoning the damned thing it lets me resize manually, but usually I give up and go through the Table properties Column menu, which is highly irritating, as I have to hit and miss a bunch of times till I get the width right. Is this a bug in Word? Or can Redmond just not imagine someone prefering to manually risize the benighted columns? Help appreciated. Ian |
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How to disable self-adjusting tables?
Hi Gringotavy,
Double-clicking or just clicking certainly won't get the result you want; you do need to drag. FWIW, I generally have more luck dragging the column indicators in the ruler... I frequently use tables in Word (2003) to create forms and to format documents for printing. One problem I continually face is that Word insists in resizing the tables to fit the contents. This despite going to Tables / table properties / options and deselecting "Automatically adjust size to contets". Even after having done this, Word still refuses to let me manually adjust the size of the cells and columns. If I double click on a column border, the column inmediately shrinks (or expands) to fit the content, and no amount of clicking will persuade it to do otherwise. Ctrl. Z undoes the action, of course, but we're back on square one. Sometimes by sheer bludgeoning the damned thing it lets me resize manually, but usually I give up and go through the Table properties Column menu, which is highly irritating, as I have to hit and miss a bunch of times till I get the width right. Is this a bug in Word? Or can Redmond just not imagine someone prefering to manually risize the benighted columns? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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