Re: Column resizing problems in table -- help??
- From: "Shauna Kelly" <ShaunaKelly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 21:59:41 +1000
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Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
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"bmuse21" <bmuse21@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> (I've posted this in the Word Tables group, but it looks like it hasn't
> had
> much activity there, so I'm hoping someone here can assist.)
>
> Using Word 2003.
>
> I've searched & read threads on column resizing, but my problem persists.
> Hoping someone can help!
>
> I have a document consisting of multiple (independent) tables. The top two
> rows of cells contain identifying text for what's in that particular
> table.
> In the default template I created, the cells are just wide enough for the
> words they contain -- initially, "preferred width" is checked.
>
> But when I replace this text with anything longer -- replacing "Eyes" with
> "Eyelashes", for example -- the cell does not expand to accommodate the
> new
> text -- it wraps. Neither "Wrap Text" NOR "Fit Text" are checked under
> the
> Cell tab in Table Properties, nor is "Automatically resize to fit
> contents"
> under Table.
>
> If I manually resize the column to fit the text, the entire table resizes
> to
> the right, often right off the page boundary.
>
> I can right-click and choose "Autofit to contents", but this makes the
> cells
> become part of the columns underneath them and throws everything way off.
>
> And for the record, checking "Automatically resize to fit contents"
> doesn't
> do anything either.
>
> I've tried turning all the above settings on AND off, with the same
> results.
> This template will be used to edit dozens if not hundreds of documents
> formatted the same way, so I really need these cells to resize for new
> text
> content, without resizing the right margin of the table and without having
> to
> manually compute column widths for every single one.
>
> I'm really at my wits' end on a huge problem. Can anyone help..???
.
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