How to: Create a Table with Fixed Column Width

• Jun 07, 2019

To create a table with fixed column widths, specify the following settings as shown in the code sample below.

Table Element	Property	Value
Table	Table.TableLayout Table.PreferredWidthType	TableLayoutType.Fixed WidthType.Fixed
Cell	TableCell.PreferredWidthType TableCell.PreferredWidth	WidthType.Fixed A floating point value specifying the cell width. To avoid dimensional changes at runtime, convert this value to document units of measurement (determined by the Document.Unit property). To do that, use the corresponding Units class method.

Note

A complete sample project is available at https://github.com/DevExpress-Examples/wpf-richedit-document-api-t213968.

TableActions.cs

Table table = document.Tables.Create(document.Range.Start, 3, 3);

table.TableAlignment = TableRowAlignment.Center;
table.TableLayout = TableLayoutType.Fixed;
table.PreferredWidthType = WidthType.Fixed;
table.PreferredWidth = DevExpress.Office.Utils.Units.InchesToDocumentsF(4f);

table.Rows[1].HeightType = HeightType.Exact;
table.Rows[1].Height = DevExpress.Office.Utils.Units.InchesToDocumentsF(0.8f);

table[1, 1].PreferredWidthType = WidthType.Fixed;
table[1, 1].PreferredWidth = DevExpress.Office.Utils.Units.InchesToDocumentsF(1.5f);

TableActions.vb

Dim table As Table = document.Tables.Create(document.Range.Start, 3, 3)

table.TableAlignment = TableRowAlignment.Center
table.TableLayout = TableLayoutType.Fixed
table.PreferredWidthType = WidthType.Fixed
table.PreferredWidth = DevExpress.Office.Utils.Units.InchesToDocumentsF(4F)

table.Rows(1).HeightType = HeightType.Exact
table.Rows(1).Height = DevExpress.Office.Utils.Units.InchesToDocumentsF(0.8F)

table(1, 1).PreferredWidthType = WidthType.Fixed
table(1, 1).PreferredWidth = DevExpress.Office.Utils.Units.InchesToDocumentsF(1.5F)

The image below illustrates the result of the code execution.