Thanks for your response, macropod!

Your advice worked great!

However, is there a way to set the page settings or something along those lines to ensure that the preferred width of all pasted tables are 15cm? (15cm was the setting I used which seemed to fit perfectly within my margins).

I realise it isn't that much effort to paste the table, highlight it, right click table properties then just set the preferred width to 15cm, but my aim is to maximise the efficiency of the production of these word documents. As a result, my aim is to make it so there is no manual 'work-around', and the table can be pasted directly into word with no further adjustments being required (such as spacing, or width etc).

Was this at all possible?

Thank you again for your assistance so far, it's greatly appreciated!