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Collin Turner reports: <<I'm having Table issues in MS Word... a
developer dropped a table that falls way out of the margins. Nothing I
do seems to get it to behave properly (get back in the margins.) I've
tried forcing it to fit, splitting it, resizing, etc. The * -at- #!! thing
just seems to defy the rules of logic and common sense.>>
If you're cussed like me and want to figure out why it's misbehaving,
click to position the cursor within the table, open the Table menu, and
select Table Properties. Often, you'll see "Preferred width" selected
in one or more of the tabs, and that can screw you up. Deselect 'em
all, and manually resize the columns.
But the easiest way to tame a misbehaving table is to select the whole
table (Table-->Select-->Table), then convert it to tab-delimited text
(Table-->Convert-->Table to text, then choose tabs). Then reverse the
process: select the text, then convert it back into a table
(Table-->Convert-->Text to table).
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