Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated June 26, 2018)
This tip applies to Word 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003
If you have a document that contains quite a few tables, you may be searching for a way to modify the width of all the tables in the document. For instance, your company standards may require that all tables be the same width, extending from the left to the right margin. If you have forty or more tables in a document, modifying the width of them all, individually, can be very tedious.
The following macro, ResizeAllTables, will quickly do what it says—resize all tables. The widths of the tables are adjusted to fill the available margins.
Sub ResizeAllTables() Dim oTbl As Table For Each oTbl In ActiveDocument.Tables oTbl.AutoFitBehavior wdAutoFitFixed With ActiveDocument.PageSetup oTbl.PreferredWidth = .PageWidth - .LeftMargin - .RightMargin End With Next oTbl End Sub
After the macro is complete, you should still examine each table to make sure that your column widths are appropriate for your data, but the overall width of the tables will be as you expected.
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WordTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Word training. (Microsoft Word is the most popular word processing software in the world.) This tip (1382) applies to Microsoft Word 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. You can find a version of this tip for the ribbon interface of Word (Word 2007 and later) here: Expanding Width of All Tables.
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2021-03-15 13:38:40
Charles Ward
Is there a way to set all tables to 7.13?
2020-08-24 03:39:07
HC
Hi great tip thanks, but if i wanted all tables to fit to a certain width, how can i incorporate this into the above macros?
2020-08-18 13:47:46
Lee
Just what I needed! Thanks.
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