Is there a way to "autofit" an InDesign table's columns to fit their content?

[dethompsowu]

Am I being dense about this? I've looked through all the help documentation, searched online in various forums, blogs, etc...I can't find anything about being able to autofit a table's column to fit its content.

This type of thing is a piece of cake in Excel...just double-click the border between the cells and it'll autofit.

But, in InDesign (as far as I can tell), it's an entirely manual process involving zooming in and manually adjusting the borders between cells until the red table cell overflow circle goes away.

Not fun when you have a half dozen tables on a single page...and then eight additional pages with similar numbers of tables.

Is there any solution to doing this? A script? A plugin? The next version (whenever it comes out)? Something else?

Thanks in advance for any help,

Doug Thompson

Manager of Web and Electronic Communications

Ohio Wesleyan University

[PaulFoulkes]

I don't know if anyone still needs this, but I wored out how to do it when I was trying to find out how to do it.

Select the cells you want to adjust, then go to the table settings in your top menu bar. Set it to 'At Least' then set the size bigger than you need it. Then use the arrows to reduce the table size down until they are all the minimum size they can be with thier contents. 

[rudiwarttmann]

Doug is struggling with the automatic horizontal, not vertical adjustment of a table cell based on its content. Which is _not_ part of InDesign's functions (for obvious reasons).

[TᴀW]

My Autofit Columns script (not free) snaps the column width to the cell content. It takes account of cell and table strokes, and works with rotated tables, etc. Plus, after fitting the columns, it optionally lets you readjust the entire table width proportionally to fit the width of the text frame or column, or a simple fraction of those widths.

Worth checking out: https://www.id-extras.com/products/autofit-columns/