Tables spill off the edge

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Travis - 17 Jun 2004 20:00 GMT

Many of the RTF files I download are formatted such that
each paragraph is a separate table (don't know why, but I
appear to be stuck with it). When I change the margins,
these tables spill off the right edge of the page. I then
have to go paragraph by paragraph and autofit each one to
the window.

Isn't there some way to either (a) get all the tables in
the document to conform to the document's margins, or (b)
autofit all the tables at one time, rather than one-by-
one? It is a beating having to do that as many as a few
hundred times per document.

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garfield-n-odie - 17 Jun 2004 22:33 GMT

Hi Travis.

I don't think you can resize all the tables in one fell swoop if the
table rows are separated by blank lines or some amount of text, or if
the cells are different widths.

However, I think you can select all the text and tables (Ctrl+A),
convert everything from text to table (Table | Convert | Text to Table),
and then from table to text (Table | Convert | Table to Text). You'll
end up with all of the text in paragraphs that fit within the page
margins, instead of in table cells that don't fit within the page margins.

Hope this helps.

> Many of the RTF files I download are formatted such that
> each paragraph is a separate table (don't know why, but I
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> one? It is a beating having to do that as many as a few
> hundred times per document.

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