[Terry Farrell]

You are selecting the table and not just the first column. If you select the
first column and right-click, you will see the option to insert a column and
it will by default be to the left. You can use the Table, AutoFit to
Contents option after you have entered your numbers.

However, if you have Excel, I recommend copying your table to Excel which be
much easier to maintain in the long term.

--
Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP

"RScotti" wrote in message
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Hi Suzanne,
Using format/Columns/number of columns (4) uncheck equal column width.

I can't find out how to change the column width correctly. When I change
the width it adds more columns than I need (5).
I put in four columns and it made five and the data is all missed up. Got
data from the second row in the first etc.

I applied this to the whole document from selected text also.

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:25:36 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote:

If the text is in a table, then you should absolutely be able to add a
column to the left of the leftmost one. Select that column, right-click,
and
choose Add Columns; it will be to the left automatically. You'll probably
need to repair the column width (but you'd have to change it anyway, to
accommodate an extra column).

Have a good day,
RScotti

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