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(I am reposting retroboy17's question, since I went to answer it and this forum had closed the thread due to inactivity.)
Hey everyone,
I am only familiar with the basics in Word (I am a bit better with Excel) but I have encountered a problem that I am hoping for some help with at work: I am handed over a Word 2003 document every monday morning that is roughly 5-9 pages long that consists of roughly 5-7 tables on it. All 6 tables have 6 columns with identical headings for each. Every Monday, I spend a lot of time making these into the exact same format, adjusting column widths to the exact same specs. I created a macro to make all of my adjustments but it fails when it comes time to adjust the column widths for all the tables. I would like to be able to run a macro with the columns widths to finish as follows:

column 1: .73
column 2: .35
column 3: .66
column 4: .51
column 5: .38
column 6: 7.56

Please help me get to the bottom of this to save my Mondays!
Thanks!

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From what I’ve seen, Word 2003 doesn’t let you iterate through columns like you would in Word 2007. So, when writing this as a 2003 macro, you have to brute force it. This has worked for me (this assumes that you have already set the table width to the sum of all of these columns):

Dim t As Table
For Each t In ActiveDocument.Tables
t.Cell(1, 1).Select

Selection.Expand Unit:=wdColumn
Selection.Columns.PreferredWidthType = wdPreferredWidthPoints
Selection.Columns.PreferredWidth = InchesToPoints(0.73)
Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1

Selection.Expand Unit:=wdColumn
Selection.Columns.PreferredWidthType = wdPreferredWidthPoints
Selection.Columns.PreferredWidth = InchesToPoints(0.35)
Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1

Selection.Expand Unit:=wdColumn
Selection.Columns.PreferredWidthType = wdPreferredWidthPoints
Selection.Columns.PreferredWidth = InchesToPoints(0.66)
Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1

Selection.Expand Unit:=wdColumn
Selection.Columns.PreferredWidthType = wdPreferredWidthPoints
Selection.Columns.PreferredWidth = InchesToPoints(0.51)
Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1

Selection.Expand Unit:=wdColumn
Selection.Columns.PreferredWidthType = wdPreferredWidthPoints
Selection.Columns.PreferredWidth = InchesToPoints(0.38)
Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1

Selection.Expand Unit:=wdColumn
Selection.Columns.PreferredWidthType = wdPreferredWidthPoints
Selection.Columns.PreferredWidth = InchesToPoints(7.56)
Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1

Next t