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Hi andy,

Don't know why this happened, but you can use this macro to get your tables
aligned to the left margin again:

Sub TablesToLeft()
Dim aTable As Table

For Each aTable In ActiveDocument.Tables
With aTable.Rows
.HorizontalPosition = 0
.RelativeHorizontalPosition = wdRelativeHorizontalPositionMargin
End With
Next aTable

End Sub

Record any macro, say record clicking the B-button on the Standard toolbar,
and be sure to choose the document under 'Store macro in'.
Choose Tools | Macro Macro's..., select your macro and choose Edit. The
VBA-editor opens.
Replace the entire current macro by the one above.
Click the Save button in the VBA editor to save the document. Close the VBA
editor. In Word, choose Tools | Macro Macros... Select TablesToLeft and
click Run.

If there are any tables left that are not positioned correctly, then drag
them a little to the left or right and run the macro again.

Good luck,
Cooz
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"andy k" wrote:

I'm running Word 2003 (without any service packs) on a Windows XP Pro SP2
system.



My document is currently 97 pages long, with a number of tables on certain
pages.



My problem is, that for no reason whatsoever, Word decided to change the
left indentation of all the tables in my document so that all of them are
0.85cm indented.



I can solve the problem by highlighting the table and selecting
FormatParagraph and changing the "Left" box under the heading Indentation
back to 0.



However, this is very long winded due to the size of my document and the
amount of tables I have in it.



Does anyone know why this has happened? Also, how can I get it to revert
back to normal indentation as I originally formatted it, without selecting
each table individually?



Thanks in advance.




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andy k
 
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Thanks for your reply.

However, the macro didn't seem to work. It did move some of the tables
themselves to the left but it didn't move the actual text within the tables
to the left at all.


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John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]
 
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Andy:

The position of text in a table is controlled by the style applied to the
text.

Unless you changed it, that could be Normal style. If it is, and you put an
indent on Normal style, it will affect the text in your tables.

If you have Normal style set to "Automatically Update" than any time you set
an indent on "any" paragraph in Normal style, every other paragraph in the
document (including those within tables) that have Normal as their style
will be affected.

I suggest that you create a paragraph style named "Table Text". Set it to
the formatting you want, make sure its left, right, above abd below settings
are 0 and apply it to all of your tables.

I STRONGLY suggest that you download Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office and
apply it, before you get any more nasty surprises :-)

Cheers


On 17/3/06 12:43 PM, in article
, "andy k"
wrote:

Thanks for your reply.

However, the macro didn't seem to work. It did move some of the tables
themselves to the left but it didn't move the actual text within the tables
to the left at all.



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