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Pasting tables from Excel 2010 into Word 2010 - How to fix column widths?

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10-02-2013, 05:33 AM

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Originally Posted by GracieB

Hi, thanks for the suggestion, but I'm afraid exactly the same thing happens if I paste it as an Excel item - still random column widths depending on the contents. Arg!

Are you sure the column widths for both pasted objects are the same in Excel? When pasted as an Excel item, the object does not become a Word table and is thus not subject to Word's table re-sizing behaviour.

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