Tidy Up All Tables

🧹 Tidy Up All Tables

Tables are essential in many types of documents:

•     Academic papers and theses
•     Reports and technical documentation
•     Business proposals and pricing sheets
•     Contracts, surveys, reference lists, schedules, etc.

But often, tables copied from other sources (like PDFs, Excel, websites, or other Word files) come with messy formatting:

•     Oversized row heights
•     Wide columns with too much padding
•     Cells that refuse to shrink even when contents are short
•     👉 That’s because extra spacing is hidden inside:
•     Paragraph spacing before/after (within the cell)
•     Line spacing of the cell text
•     Table cell margins (top, bottom, left, right)

You could manually fix these issues — but doing that for every table in a long document is tedious and error-prone.

✨ This button fixes it instantly.

Button “Tidy Up All Tables” automatically cleans and fits all tables in the selected area with one click.

⚙ How it works

1.  Select the part of your document you want to apply this to:

o  Select the entire document with Ctrl + A

o  Or select any specific portion that includes tables

2. Click the “Tidy Up All Tables” button

Done! All tables within the selected area are automatically cleaned and fitted to content.

The button will:

o  Adjust all paragraph settings inside tables to remove:

• •   Line spacing
  •   Spacing before/after paragraphs

o  Set table cell margins (top, bottom, left, right) to compact defaults

o  Shrink each row/column to fit the content exactly

o  Apply consistent formatting to make tables visually clean and professionally aligned

🧠 What this actually solves

✅ Tables will no longer have oversized cells
✅ No more fiddling with table borders that don't respond
✅ Great for cleaning imported or pasted tables
✅ Ensures tables are tight, clear, and print-ready
✅ Frees you from diving into deep menu options like “Table Properties”, “Paragraph settings”, “Layout options”, and more

📌 Common real-world scenarios

•     You pasted a large table from Excel → rows are tall, columns stretched
•     You copied a survey result or a price list from a PDF → spacing is broken
•     You tried to shrink column width, but it refuses to resize
•     Your academic supervisor requested “cleaner” or “more compact” tables
•     You're finalizing a document for print, submission, or export to PDF and the tables look bloated

💡 Example

You select your whole thesis document using Ctrl + A,
click Tidy Up All Tables,
and instantly — all tables are neatly fitted to their content with no wasted space.

✅ Why this button saves time

•     No need to manually check cell margins, spacing, and row heights
•     No trial-and-error clicking in table corners or dragging borders
•     No going into Ribbon tabs like "Layout" > "Cell Margins" or “Paragraph” > “Spacing”

One click replaces 10+ manual steps.

🎯 Summary

Button “Tidy Up All Tables” is the perfect solution to:

•     Fix messy table layouts
•     Eliminate hidden spacing issues
•     Quickly make all tables clean, compact, and professionally styled

In short:

When your tables look oversized or disorganized, just select your content and click this button. Your tables will instantly be adjusted to fit their content — no more bloated rows, stuck cells, or wasted time.