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puzzled but hoping
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March 18, 2014
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Table format column width

  • March 18, 2014
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Is it possible to define the width of columns in a format for  tables in FM 11 in order to change all tables in a file rather than to have to go through the painstaking task of setting each value for each column of each table...

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Bob_Niland
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Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
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March 18, 2014

If FM had this capbility, this wouldn't exist:

http://www.frameexpert.com/plugins/tablecleaner/resizetablecolumns.htm

I've not used it myself.

Even via MIF hacking, changing column widths is not trivial, because

  • the size presented to you is apt to be rounded compared to the precise N-digit value actually stored, and
  • all sorts of other random stuff in a MIF can easily have the same numeric string (so you have to parse tags, sometimes on adjacent lines, to be sure)
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puzzled but hopingAuthor
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March 18, 2014

Great, - I shall try that tool!, much appreciated.

Also thanks for the tiny insight into the realm of FM code difficulties -
Same root problem it seems I mine with changing tables too late for a stressfree workflow
- forever elvolving structures are always more difficult to handle than those that have a beginning and an end.

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Russ Ward
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March 19, 2014

puzzled,

My WS Utilities plugin can also do this. You can copy table column widths from one table to the clipboard, then paste them to all selected tables. The plugin isn't free but it does have a free trial version that would accomplish this task, albiet while nagging you to buy a license.

http://www.weststreetconsulting.com/WSC_Utils.htm

Russ

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