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Table width malfunctioning
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Can anyone help with a strange problem I am having with tables in Word 2003? I have a table with loads of rows and just two columns. The left column contains headings and the right contains text. After I modified the style of the headings (by adding space before and after), the right column suddenly expanded and disappeared off the page. Does anyone know why this happened and how I can fix it? -- Many thanks JD |
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Hi Jackie
I don't know what happened but I have also found table width very difficult to control systematically in 2003. Tables sometimes seem to reposition or reformat in contradiction to settings. To fix I'd suggest you use Table Properties to reset table and column widths, and also turn off "Automatically resize to fit content" (from Table Properties Options button). It might also be worthwhile looking at Tools Options Compatibility as I seem to remember "allow tables to extend into margins" is a difference between Word 2002 and Word 2003 - if you've brought a document across versions maybe there is a slight formatting argument going on g. -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org "Jackie D" wrote in message news Hi Can anyone help with a strange problem I am having with tables in Word 2003? I have a table with loads of rows and just two columns. The left column contains headings and the right contains text. After I modified the style of the headings (by adding space before and after), the right column suddenly expanded and disappeared off the page. Does anyone know why this happened and how I can fix it? -- Many thanks JD |
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Hi Margaret
The settings originally didn't have the 'resize' checked but I've just gone into the Table Properties, as you suggested, and that setting was indeed checked! Removing the check mark has fixed the problem. But I have no idea how it got changed. I upgraded from 2000 to 2003. Thanks for the tip though. All sorted - until next time! -- Many thanks JD "Margaret Aldis" wrote: Hi Jackie I don't know what happened but I have also found table width very difficult to control systematically in 2003. Tables sometimes seem to reposition or reformat in contradiction to settings. To fix I'd suggest you use Table Properties to reset table and column widths, and also turn off "Automatically resize to fit content" (from Table Properties Options button). It might also be worthwhile looking at Tools Options Compatibility as I seem to remember "allow tables to extend into margins" is a difference between Word 2002 and Word 2003 - if you've brought a document across versions maybe there is a slight formatting argument going on g. -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org "Jackie D" wrote in message news Hi Can anyone help with a strange problem I am having with tables in Word 2003? I have a table with loads of rows and just two columns. The left column contains headings and the right contains text. After I modified the style of the headings (by adding space before and after), the right column suddenly expanded and disappeared off the page. Does anyone know why this happened and how I can fix it? -- Many thanks JD |
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Note that the "Automatically resize..." option will be turned back on
if you choose to "AutoFit to Window" or "AutoFit to Contents" from the TableAutoFit sub-menu. Perhaps this is what happened. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Jackie D" wrote in message ... Hi Margaret The settings originally didn't have the 'resize' checked but I've just gone into the Table Properties, as you suggested, and that setting was indeed checked! Removing the check mark has fixed the problem. But I have no idea how it got changed. I upgraded from 2000 to 2003. Thanks for the tip though. All sorted - until next time! -- Many thanks JD "Margaret Aldis" wrote: Hi Jackie I don't know what happened but I have also found table width very difficult to control systematically in 2003. Tables sometimes seem to reposition or reformat in contradiction to settings. To fix I'd suggest you use Table Properties to reset table and column widths, and also turn off "Automatically resize to fit content" (from Table Properties Options button). It might also be worthwhile looking at Tools Options Compatibility as I seem to remember "allow tables to extend into margins" is a difference between Word 2002 and Word 2003 - if you've brought a document across versions maybe there is a slight formatting argument going on g. -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org "Jackie D" wrote in message news Hi Can anyone help with a strange problem I am having with tables in Word 2003? I have a table with loads of rows and just two columns. The left column contains headings and the right contains text. After I modified the style of the headings (by adding space before and after), the right column suddenly expanded and disappeared off the page. Does anyone know why this happened and how I can fix it? -- Many thanks JD |
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