script to adjust the width of column

[abhijeett89122812]

need a script to set width of below column .ie 30, 45, 60, 15, 15, 30, and 30 for the table, thanks in advance

[SJRiegel]

This script still works in CC2017 - it not only lets you set specific column widths, but also lets you save them to a table style so that you can apply them automatically to subsequent tables that have that style applied. 

Re: column width in cell specs

[Srishti Bali]

moved to InDesign Scripting​

[Sunil Yadav · Accepted solution]

First find your table and store in myTable variable, and you can directly assign value to each column just like this...

for(var i = 0; i< myTable.columns.length; i++){
     if(i==0){
          myTable.columns.width = 30;
          } 
     else if(i==1){
          myTable.columns.width = 45;
          }
     else if(i==2){
          myTable.columns.width = 60;
          }
     else if(i==3){
          myTable.columns.width = 15;
          }
     else if(i==4){
          myTable.columns.width = 15;
          }
     else if(i==5){
          myTable.columns.width = 30;
          }
     else if(i==6){
          myTable.columns.width = 30;
          }
     }

[Marc Autret]

Or, in other words:

var a = [30,45,60,15,15,30,30], cols = myTable.columns;
for( var i=cols.length ; i-- ; isNaN(a)||(cols.width=a) );

@+

Marc

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Hi Marc,

More readable for me, is this code equivalent to yours?

var myTable = app.selection[0].parent.parent, 
a = [10,40,60,15,5,30,10], cols = myTable.columns, C = cols.length, c;
for ( c = 0; c < C; c++ ) if (c < a.length) cols.width = a;

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[acaraa32233318]

Please can someone help me as I am pretty new to scripting. I have a table with 22.5mm, 15.75mm, 209.25 and 22.5mm through a 20 page document but need to adjust only the first column of 22.5mm to 18mm.

please help with a script. I do not have any table styles set up for this. Ta.

[jonathanw96483303]

Thanks for this info! I've used an adjusted script for indesign 2019 - addition of [i] to denote which column needs to be changed

for(var i = 0; i< myTable.columns.length; i++){
if(i==0){
myTable.columns[i].width = 28;
}
else if(i==1){
myTable.columns[i].width = 36;
}
else if(i==2){
myTable.columns[i].width = 27;
}
}

(of course this could be simplified further...

[Laubender]

Hi Jonathan,

also look into a script by Gerald Singelmann:

Auto Column

https://github.com/gsingelmann/indd_autocolumn

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

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