Wrong Table width when preview file & uploading Google Docs

[huynhtansi]

Hi, dolanmiu. Thank you for awesome library.

I has a problem when creating a full-width table with code:

const table = doc.createTable(3, headers.length) table.setWidth(WidthType.PERCENTAGE, '100%')

It works fine when open in Microsoft Word, but wrong width when preview in Google Docs or Finder (I'm using MacOS).

Microsoft Word:

Google Docs:

Finder Preview:

[dolanmiu]

Yes, Gogole docs, or finder is not supported

Only Microsoft Word so far

If you can figure out how to get the features working in each, that would be amazing

[carlbolduc]

I use Tab Stops to work around this, they work perfectly in both Pages and Google Docs.

[vahid18u]

Would you please write somewhere in the documentation with bold font that this package does not support google docs ? It took more than 2 days for me to find it out and see this issue with table width. Thanks

[WilliamPeralta]

@vahid18u if you want you can add the warning on the documentation yourself and open a PR,

[baloo887]

I use Tab Stops to work around this, they work perfectly in both Pages and Google Docs.

Hi @carlbolduc , can you please explain how you use tab stops in your workaround? Everything else is working fine in my document, but tables. If your workaround works, you made my day!!

[carlbolduc]

Hi @carlbolduc , can you please explain how you use tab stops in your workaround? Everything else is working fine in my document, but tables. If your workaround works, you made my day!!

Here is an example, I first create a line like this:

const line = this.doc.createParagraph().bullet().maxRightTabStop();

I can then add content to it:

line.createTextRun('Stuff...');

And use tab stops to simulate a table:

line.createTextRun('Other stuff').tab();

[krooq]

@carlbolduc I have tried the tab stops and they don't seem to work in Google docs either.. perhaps the implementation has changed since Novemebr

[carlbolduc]

@carlbolduc I have tried the tab stops and they don't seem to work in Google docs either.. perhaps the implementation has changed since Novemebr

I'm using version 5.0.0-rc4. Anything else after that broke my implementation so I stay on this version.

[dolanmiu]

I have found the issue, it is because you need to explicitly specify the widths

Most word processors aren't smart enough to figure out what width you want. Microsoft Word seems to be the exception and figures out the desired result nicely.

Check out this demo on how to specify widths (column widths and cell widths):

https://github.com/dolanmiu/docx/blob/master/demo/4-basic-table.ts

here are the results from different word processors using that demo:

Word 365:

Libre Office:

Google docs:

In future, I will consider making docx "smarter" so it knows what width the user intends... but that seems to be a challenge in itself.