Why do my table columns move again after I resize them?

[Meredith Thompson]

When I resize a table column in Word, I drag the border to where I want it to
go, but then most of the time Word then changes the column width to something
entirely different - usually it's worse than before I did the resize! Is
this some automatic "helpful" feature that I can turn off? It's driving me
crazy!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Do you have auto resizing disabled already?

 

[Meredith Thompson]

I have now disabled auto resizing, and it is better than before. It sometimes
still does strange things but nothing I can't live with! - thanks.

 

[Stefan Blom]

You may also want to choose Table>AutoFit>Fixed Column Width; this
removes any percentage widths for the table and its columns and, as a
result, prevents column widths from changing (note that this option
also turns off the auto resizing, if it's enabled).

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


in message

 

[Ubar]

This has drove me crazy for an hour,

I finally went to format dropdown menu, Reveal formatting and check all the
formatting in the table and tuned it all off.

Final I split the table into two and made sure there was a paragraph break
between the tables and it seams to work now

Hope this helps