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    Autofit a Table Width

    Hi John / everyone

    I've tried to make code that narrows all columns in a table to auto fit their text. But it goes one character wide per column.
    Any ideas please? So columns will narrow to the width of its contents (unless text is wrapping of course, then that width is fine).
    Thus the tables would be narrower in total width. If I change otbl.Parent.Width = 0 to Auto, it still fails. (Parent.Height = 0 works fine for table heights.)


    Sub NarrowColumnWidths()
    
    
    Dim minW As Single
    With ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange(1).Table
    Set otbl = ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange(1).Table
    For iCol = 1 To .Columns.Count
    For iRow = 1 To .Rows.Count
    With .Cell(iRow, iCol).Shape.TextFrame
    otbl.Parent.Width = 0
    End With
    Next
    Next
    End With
    
    
    End Sub

    No sure if it's possible, I know you can in Excel and Word, just hoping this may do it?

    Thank you.
    Last edited by Zack Barresse; 04-08-2020 at 10:46 AM. Reason: added proper CODE tags

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    Have you tried to do this manually with the macro recorder active?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aussiebear View Post
    Have you tried to do this manually with the macro recorder active?

    One thing that PP lacks is a macro recorder similar to Excel's and Word's
    Last edited by Paul_Hossler; 04-09-2020 at 08:41 PM.
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