Hi,
is it possible to protect the width of table columns?

bye Marcel

"That depends." In the Table Properties dialog you can set "preferred
widths" for cells and columns. These will be maintained provided that (a)
you don't allow auto resizing, which can be disabled in the Table Options
dialog (click Options... on the Table tab of Table Properties) and (b) you
don't change them by manually dragging the column borders. The way this
seems to work is that Word sometimes decides on its own to define the
current width of a column as the "preferred width" and won't let you change
it, but of course if you don't *want* it to change, it will!

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Marcel Gnoth" mgnoth (at) nteam.de wrote in message
...
Hi,
is it possible to protect the width of table columns?

bye Marcel

Hi Suzanne,

thanx for your answer.

I work with Word 2003 and I would like to protect the table. I want avoid,
that users change the width of a column. I need a fixed Columnwidth because
I construct new Tables from the other table.

Many greetings from Berlin

Marcel

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
...
"That depends." In the Table Properties dialog you can set "preferred
widths" for cells and columns. These will be maintained provided that (a)
you don't allow auto resizing, which can be disabled in the Table Options
dialog (click Options... on the Table tab of Table Properties) and (b) you
don't change them by manually dragging the column borders. The way this
seems to work is that Word sometimes decides on its own to define the
current width of a column as the "preferred width" and won't let you
change
it, but of course if you don't *want* it to change, it will!

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

"Marcel Gnoth" mgnoth (at) nteam.de wrote in message
...
Hi,
is it possible to protect the width of table columns?

bye Marcel