Tables - how do you enter text?

[Babsyk 0]

I am new to Evernote and trying to add text into tables but each time I do the column width grows.  How do I enter text without the column changing size please?  Thank you

[CalS 5,280]

On Windows table widths are dynamic to the text that gets entered.  The only way I have found to kind of fix the widths is to create a last line in the table using x's in each column to set the width.  I don't do it often, only for table I use frequently and want a fixed width column for dates or the like.  

 

Interestingly it is also a way to expand the width of the table if say you set it at 50%.  Don't know why, but adding x's expands the width of the table.  All the x's together don't text wrap.  FWIW.

[Frank.dg 1,385]

I like your workaround Cal!

 

Also, one can copy paste tables from MS Word, especially if you want filler colors and invisible borders 

 

Like so:

 

http://www.evernote.com/l/ATRHg-I6cBBMjaRHQUMnJG_Tk4nCadYZTio/

[gazumped 11,657]

And (provided you remember you did it) you can set the colour of your 'x's to white -or your chosen background- so they disappear from view.

[Frank.dg 1,385]

...And as @Gazumped pointed out in a post elsewhere… You can import a Microsoft Word document and keep it in the same note as your table (for safekeeping).

[CalS 5,280]

And (provided you remember you did it) you can set the colour of your 'x's to white -or your chosen background- so they disappear from view.

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