MS Word 2003 -- Set Exact Column Width

[Gary]

Is there any way to set and EXACT column width and have it stick?


I use MS-Word a lot and use tables for a lot of things. I always seem to
come back to fighting with it about column width. Even going to Properties >
Options and UNchecking the "Automatically resize to fit contents" box
doesn't always work.

For rows there is an option "Row height is" and then you can select
"Exactly". But for columns it's "PREFERRED Width".

I use Word 2003. Do any of the other versions do this better?

Thanks,
Gary

 

[Carol]

Is there any way to set and EXACT column width and have it stick?

I use MS-Word a lot and use tables for a lot of things. I always seem to
come back to fighting with it about column width. Even going to Properties >
Options and UNchecking the "Automatically resize to fit contents" box
doesn't always work.

For rows there is an option "Row height is" and then you can select
"Exactly". But for columns it's "PREFERRED Width".

I use Word 2003. Do any of the other versions do this better?

Thanks,
Gary

Hi Gary,

You say you use Word Tables a lot, so once you have a table set up to
your specifications, why not just save it as a Template or Style so
that you will always have it available to you?

 

[Gary]

Hi Gary,

You say you use Word Tables a lot, so once you have a table set up to
your specifications, why not just save it as a Template or Style so
that you will always have it available to you?

Hey Carol,

Thanks for the suggestion.

Unfortunately, unless I'm missing what you are saying, that's not gonna
work.

Reason is that I never do the same thing twice. It's not like I'm always
creating a certain table table for something I do daily. Each time is
different. Today it might be a table to compare laptop computers I want to
buy. Tomorrow a form for recording data from a new experiment.

Well, I'll look into Templates & Styles. Maybe I'm missing what you are
suggesting.

Thanks again,
Gary