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Old 02-11-2014, 09:59 PM
mjs9876543210 mjs9876543210 is offline Columns resize badly after cutting and pasting rows Windows 8 Columns resize badly after cutting and pasting rows Office 2013
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I have a table with no preferred width, autofit to contents. None of the columns have a specified width. The resizing works fine -- with one exception.



When I cut and paste rows within the table, sometimes the columns of the table are screwed up. The column widths of the the pasted rows are changed and don't match the column widths of the rest of the table.

I've attached three screen shots -- "before" the row is cut, "after" the row is cut, and the document in the state before the 6th row is cut and then pasted by selecting in the first column of the third row.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Mike
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Old 02-12-2014, 02:39 PM
Ulodesk Ulodesk is offline Columns resize badly after cutting and pasting rows Windows 7 64bit Columns resize badly after cutting and pasting rows Office 2013
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It appears from your second image that you have inadvertently added a column. Note the skinny cell at far right of the red row.

Word tables can be tricky. One aspect that keeps them from behaving is columns not aligning perfectly. If one row's cells are not aligned perfectly with the rows above and below, for example, a column selection may annoyingly select a different cell than expected in that row, and throw the selection off below it as well. Fixing alignment sometimes requires increasing the magnification enough to see a discrepancy which screen resolution prevents recognizing at lower magnifications.

Similarly, merged or split cells can confuse Word when it comes to pasting. Word wants it all to line up just so, with no surprises, such as receiving (i.e., having pasted in) a row with more or fewer cells than the rows immediately adjacent.

I hope this will help you solve your difficulty.

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mjs9876543210 mjs9876543210 is offline Columns resize badly after cutting and pasting rows Windows 8 Columns resize badly after cutting and pasting rows Office 2013
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Thank you for your help. I only it were that simple.

In both the before and after there are 6 columns in each row, which is a good thing because I cut-and-pasted the row.

And because the table is Auto-fit to Contents, Word is setting the columns widths -- presumably the same for each row. (Though I suppose there could be a bug in Word that means the columns are imperceptibly different.)

Since my original post i discovered that if I shorten the 4th column of the sixth row so that there is no word-wrap that the problem does not occur. And I noticed that the (incorrect) widths for the pasted row are likely not random -- Word has aligned the right hand side of the 4th column with the right hand side of the 6th column of the rows above and below.

This is not a huge problem - I can fix it by selecting the table and asking Word to first distribute columns evenly and then to Auto-fit again. But it is a pain.

Is there an official Word bug list anywhere? Or place to submit one?

Any additional insight appreciated.

Thanks,
Mike
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