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Old July 26th, 2004, 12:44 PM
Stefan Blom
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Default "automatically resize to fit contents" grayed out

I cannot reproduce your problem. Note that I'm still on Word 2000, so
it might be an issue of Word 2002.

--
Stefan Blom


"T" wrote in message
...
Alright, I've been wrestling with this for too long, and
now I think Word is just trying to spite me.

What I do:

Create a new blank document.
Go to Table - Insert - Table
In the dialog box, I had:
number of columns: 2
number of rows: 2
selected the fixed column width option
specified 1 inch as the width
clicked OK to create the table
Right clicked on the table and brought up table properties
dialog
Selected Options on the table tab
Unchecked "Automatically resize to fit contents"
Clicked OKs
Chose a cell and typed a piece of text wider than the cell
width.

...

and lo and behold the cell and table expand to match the
width of the word!!

I then tried setting the column width both via the Table
Properties dialog AND through the Cell Height and Width
dialog as mentioned in the "How to Sidestep Problems..."
document.

No luck. It still automatically resizes to match the
text... And it's not even the case that I have nested
tables anymore.

Can anyone else reproduce this or do I just have a messed
up installation of Word?
By the way, it's Windows 2002 (10.4219.2625).

-T (ready to swear of Word tables forever)


-----Original Message-----
I'm not sure exactly what problem you are having with

setting column
widths manually.

For problems with the Table Properties dialog box, see:

How to sidestep the problems of the Word 2000 (and

higher) Table
Properties dialog
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/TablePropPrbs.htm

And if you need to know everything about different ways

to specify the
widths of columns, see the section titled "Sizing rows

and columns" in
the following article:

Table Basics
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/TableBasics.htm

--
Stefan Blom


"T" wrote in message
...
Yes, I noticed the behavior of the nested table being
automatically grayed out, and was hoping there was some
way to override that.

I tried setting a "fixed column width" but just want to

be
sure I did it correctly (oh, just realized I never said
that I'm running Word 2002). I have my column at the
desired width, then I right clicked in it, went to

Autofit
in the popup menu, then selected "Fixed Column Width."

And
for good measure, I also set a preferred column width in
the table properties for both the nested table and the
holding table.

Still no luck though.

I suppose I could try working in one table, but one of

the
main reasons why I have these nested tables, is that I'm
incorporating tables from two different documents into
one. I was hoping a quick copy/paste would do,

especially
since I have some graphic elements involved, but it's
proving to be possibly more of a hassle than producing a
brand new table.

-T


-----Original Message-----
It seems as though Word automatically checks (and greys
out) the
"Automatically resize to fit contents" option for a

table
contained in
the cell of another table. You can easily test this if
you create two
separate tables in a test document, clear
the "Automatically
resize..." option for both of them and then cut and

paste
one of the
tables into a cell of the other. For the table

contained
within the
other, you'll find that the option is greyed out and
selected again.

However, although the "Automatically resize..." option

is
selected, if
you specify a fixed width for the nested table as well

as
for its
columns, it does seem to keep the desired width. If

this
doesn't work
for you, have you considered skipping the nested table,
and instead
use tabs within a cell of the "parent" table, or
splitting the cells
of the parent table?

--
Stefan Blom


"T" wrote in message
...
I have a nested table within which I need to include

a
URL
for reference, however I do NOT want the width of the
cell
to resize to match the width of the (considerably

long)
URL. I know I should uncheck the "automatically

resize
to
fit contents" checkbox in the table options dialog,
however, it's grayed out, and checked, in the dialog
and I
can't figure out how to uncheck it.

Oh, and it is unchecked for the table that holds this
nested table. Any tips??!!

Thanks,
T








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