Columns resize as I type

[Dee]

Whenever I create a table as I type the cells resize as I type. I went into
the table properties and changed the "automatically resize to fit contents"
However that works for only that table. How do I make this change
permanently. So that every table I create I don't have to tell word not to
resize. This has only just started happening. Before I would create a table
and the columns would not resize to fit the text. I tried changing in my
norma.dot but once I delete the table and go into a document based on my
normal.dot the cells resize to fit my text.

Does anybody know why this has happened and how do I fix it.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Regards,

dee

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?RGVl?=,

This has been standard behavior since Word 2000 or 2002 (I can no longer
recall in which of these versions it was changed). There's unfortunately no
way to change the default behavior in the user interface. Basically, there are
two alternate approaches you can use to avoid having to make this setting "for
every table":

1. Create AutoText entries, one for each basic kind of table you use
regularly. Insert these instead of using the Insert/Table command

2. Use a macro to create your tables. The macro can turn off the behavior.

Whenever I create a table as I type the cells resize as I type. I went into
the table properties and changed the "automatically resize to fit contents"
However that works for only that table. How do I make this change
permanently. So that every table I create I don't have to tell word not to
resize. This has only just started happening. Before I would create a table
and the columns would not resize to fit the text. I tried changing in my
norma.dot but once I delete the table and go into a document based on my
normal.dot the cells resize to fit my text.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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