atw: Table formatting shortcuts in Word

I may be the only one in the world who never knew this but...

I was fed up with the way Tables in Word worked. If you grab an internal
column border and drag it left or right, the size of the adjacent column
also changes. Turns out I didn't know about a few of the keyboard/mouse
shortcuts when working with tables.

Hold down the Shift key and click and drag a column boundary if you only
want to change the width of one column while maintaining the widths of
all the other columns. The table width shrinks or enlarges to suit.

Hold down the Ctrl key and click and drag a column boundary if you want
to maintain the proportions of the columns to the right as you change
the width of a column. 

Hold down the Alt key and click and drag a column boundary if you want
to see the table dimensions in the ruler at the top of the page as you
change the size.

Alt can be used in combination with the shift or ctrl keys.

That's made my day that has. Easily pleased.

Rob 


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