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Pasting rows changes column widths
Hi --
I have this problem in many of my tables... I have a "Autofit to Contents" table with a bunch of rows. At times when I cut-and-paste rows to rearrange the able the column widths of the pasted rows get changed such that they tightly fit the contents of that row, but not the table as a whole. So the column widths of the pasted row don't match the table. Once this has happened the only way I've found to fix the table is to select the entire table, "Distribute Columns Evenly" then "Autofit to Contents" again. This doesn't happen every time or on every table, but I can't figure out the pattern. Anyone know what's going on and how to avoid it? Thanks, Mike |
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Pasting rows changes column widths
Peter A;2653459 Wrote: In article bfcbf40a-f82e-46de-9d0a-3467b775e324 @i12g2000prf.googlegroups.com, says...- Hi -- I have this problem in many of my tables... I have a "Autofit to Contents" table with a bunch of rows. At times when I cut-and-paste rows to rearrange the able the column widths of the pasted rows get changed such that they tightly fit the contents of that row, but not the table as a whole. So the column widths of the pasted row don't match the table. Once this has happened the only way I've found to fix the table is to select the entire table, "Distribute Columns Evenly" then "Autofit to Contents" again. This doesn't happen every time or on every table, but I can't figure out the pattern. Anyone know what's going on and how to avoid it? Thanks, Mike - Try turning on the Preferred Width option in the Columns section of the Table Properties dialog box. -- Peter Aitken Author, MS Word for Medical and Technical Writers www.tech-word.com FWIW, you can move entire rows in a table to rearrange their order without c/p. Put your ciursor in a cell of the row to be moved, and hold Shift+Alt pressed, while hitting [ArrowUp] (or [ArrowDwn] for that matter). -- Henk57 |
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