Turn off Automatically Resize to Fit Contents?

[Grace L. Judson]

Is there any way to set Word 2002 and 2003 up so that tables are created
with "Automatically resize to fit contents" turned OFF?

If not ... is there a shorter way to get it turned off than by going through
the several layers of clicks and windows to get to that check box?

Thank you!

[Chad DeMeyer]

Grace,

You can do it with a macro:

Sub TableInsertTable()
If Dialogs(wdDialogTableInsertTable).Show = -1 Then
If Selection.Tables.Count = 0 Then Selection.MoveUp
Set InsertedTable = Selection.Tables(1)
InsertedTable.AllowAutoFit = False
End If
End Sub

This macro replaces the built-in command to insert a table in Word because
it has the same name as the built-in command. If the user clicks Cancel in
the Insert Table dialog, no other action is taken. This won't catch tables
created with Convert Text To Table.

Regards,
Chad

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