How To Change Column Width In Table In Word For Mac 2016

Word: Autofit a table to the width of the page margins

In my Word document, I have over 300 tables and I want to change the table style and adjust the columns' widths. I am using the following code in my VBA macro. It's working for a style but not for column width. Please help me find where the problem is. However, sometimes you may want to freeze the size of the cells in the rows and columns so they will not change. This is easy to accomplish. Open the Word file containing the table for which you want to freeze the size of the cells and find the table in the document. How to Change Column Width And Row Height in Microsoft Word. How to Change Column Width And Row Height in Microsoft Word.

This handy trick is useful for tables in your main document and any tables you might use for layout in your headers/footers. It's particularly useful if you ever change the page margins in your document — with a table set to ‘autofit to window', changing the page margins means that the table resizes too and you don't have to resize the columns manually.

Here's how in Word 2003 and Word 2007:

Word 2003:

1. Click inside the table.
2. On the menu, select Table > AutoFit > AutoFit to Window.

Word 2007:

This handy trick is useful for tables in your main document and any tables you might use for layout in your headers/footers. It's particularly useful if you ever change the page margins in your document — with a table set to ‘autofit to window', changing the page margins means that the table resizes too and you don't have to resize the columns manually.

Here's how in Word 2003 and Word 2007:

Word 2003:

1. Click inside the table.
2. On the menu, select Table > AutoFit > AutoFit to Window.

Word 2007:

1. Click inside the table.
2. Go to the Table Tools > Layout tab.
3. Click the large AutoFit icon, then click AutoFit Window.

See also:

• Macro to autofit ALL tables in a document: https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/author-it-autofit-tables-in-word-output/
• Various table resizing options: https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/word-table-column-widths/
• Repeating the autofit action for the next table: https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/word-repeat-immediate-past-action/ (combined with https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/word-jumping-to-next-table-graphic-or-field/)

Adjust Table Columns in Word (Auto Fit)

You can manually adjust the width of any table; however, the following tips may allow you to fine-tune your tables with less effort.

To adjust table row and column size in Word:

• Click anywhere in the table.
• In 'Table Tools' click the [Layout] tab > locate the 'Cell Size' group and choose from of the following options:
  1. To fit the columns to the text (or page margins if cells are empty), click [AutoFit] > select 'AutoFit Contents.'
  2. To fit the table to the text, click [AutoFit] > select 'AutoFit Window.'
  3. To keep Word from automatically adjusting your column size, click [AutoFit] > select 'Fixed Column Width.'
  4. To adjust the row height, click the up and down arrows within the 'Height' field. Highlight multiple cells to adjust more than 1 row.
  5. To adjust the column width, click the up and down arrows within the 'Width' field.
  6. To make all columns the same width, click [Distrubute Columns].
  7. To make each row the same height, click [Distrubute Rows].

How To Change Column Width In Table In Word For Mac 2016

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