Column width adjusting

[volter]

After deleting a column on both my tables, I'm now trying to adjust the column width on both of them and their behaviour is different (see table 1 and 2 on the pic). On the Table 1, when I want to extend the last column (red circle) to the guide on the right of it, it snaps to the guide and the table stays on the margins fine. On the Table 2 when I adjust the width, the whole table is adjusted from the middle instead of the right edge/last column, and it's a pain to get the table to stay on the left margin and snap to the guide on the right.

I've been searching for a solution everywhere and couldn't find it. 

Thank you in advance.

 

[Willi Adelberger]

You can adapt single colum lines or the wiedth of a table without unwanted effect to other colums by holding a modifier key. 
Mofifier keys are shift, alt, command and different combination of them. Try, what is fitting for you.

[Laubender]

Hi @volter ,

could be that the paragraph where your second table sits in is formatted to Center Alignment.

Change that to Left Alignment and the second table should behave like the first one.

It would help to turn on the visibility of invisible characters. Also to see frame edges.

So that you can see the end of story sign or the paragraph signs together with the frame edges of your text frame.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

[Rene Andritsch]

If you have to work with tables a lot then I would also take a look at Gerald Singelmann’s free script “AutoColumn” which allows to adjust the witdh of all columns in a table at the same time. The script is accessible via GitHub: https://github.com/gsingelmann/indd_autocolumn

[SJRiegel]

This is a great script - it also allows you to store column widths in a table style, and apply them to any table of that style. It's an easy way to make uniform tables.