Re: Troubles with Tables - Table Wrangling!

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

Select the entire table and then go to Table Properties
and check the Table tab.  If the table has a preferred
width selected, that will override all attempts to change
column widths individually.  This option is off by default
in new Word tables, but if you're pasting in something
that started out as an Excel spreadsheet it will be usually
go in with the option on and the width set at whatever
the original spreadsheet had defined for the cells pasted
in.

Gene Kim-Eng
.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Collin T" <tutivillus -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 1:46 PM
Subject: Troubles with Tables - Table Wrangling!


Hello All,

I'm having Table issues in MS Word.

The problem is this:

I'm formatting a Spec Doc and 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.  Granted, when it comes to this
particular area, I am not a master of Word.  When I ask our Developers
why they use tables so often I get blank looks and the answer: "What
else is there?"

So, I turn to you, oh wise and great Masters of All Things Frustrating
About Word.

Have you any advice about Table Wrangling?

-- Collin Turner
Techwriter
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