Q: How different colum-widths?

[Tom H. Lautenbacher]

Hello NG,

i am working on a word document, wich contains some excel sheets as inserted
objects.

now i want to merge some of these excelsheets. unfortunately they have
different coloum- widths. is it possible to merge them and say to ecxel,
that from here and further down to use different coloum- widths, then in the
upper part of the sheet?

thanx,
Tom.

 

[Dave Peterson]

Excel doesn't support different columnwidths per row.

You might be able simulate it by merging cells together (format|cells|alignment
tab). But merging cells can cause problems with other things.

You might be able to use small columns (like one character wide) and then put
things where you want. But that's a pretty ugly solution, too.

And if you're not really using excel in your word document, maybe you could copy
a picture of your data instead of embed the excel file.

Select your range in excel and Edit|Copy
then off to Word and Edit|paste special|Picture

 

[Tom H. Lautenbacher]

Hello Dave!

Excel doesn't support different columnwidths per row. oh...

You might be able simulate it by merging cells together
(format|cells|alignment tab). But merging cells can cause problems
with other things.

You might be able to use small columns (like one character wide) and
then put things where you want. But that's a pretty ugly solution,
too.

And if you're not really using excel in your word document, maybe you
could copy a picture of your data instead of embed the excel file.

Select your range in excel and Edit|Copy
then off to Word and Edit|paste special|Picture

thanx for your workarrounds. the first two should do, but as you said
yourself, there are quite ugly..
since i work with the sheets, the last one won't do it.
what a pitty, i thought, that it is possible to do it with excel as i
imagined, by just setting different coloum widths...

thanx for your help & time!

tom.

 

[Dave Peterson]

Maybe you could just keep the data in Word (if you don't do a lot of excel
things to it). I think you can have different column widths per cell if you use
a Word Table.