Word 2003: Is it possible to tell a table that you want it to be the size of
one page?

I have a table that I want to be x # of rows long and y # columns wide. I
want the table to fill the whole page and then I can click "evenly distribute
rows," and "evenly distribute columns." However, I spend a lot of time trying
to resize the table to one page and then, often, when I click, "evenly
distribute rows," it bumps some of the rows over onto the next page. I keep
having to guess how big the rows should be.

Any ideas? Thank you in advance.