[Stefan Blom]

Glad I could help.

To create tables whose columns don't automatically resize, you would
have to use an AutoText entry, created from an existing table (which
has the "Automatically resize..." option turned off).

In order to turn "Automatically resize..." off for all existing tables
in a document, you would need a macro.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"xppuser" wrote in message
...
thanks stefan! i am surprised that microsoft did not set an initial
default
behaviour i.e. either behaviour seems to occur randomly in my case.

regards,
jes