Thank you kmessigner.
The plugin you reference seems to make tables outside of the page editor. I guess you insert them with shortcode, which i was hoping to avoid.
However, I did find out my answer with a dub moment.
You see, I wanted to use tables to do graphic page layout (see https://www.hillerassociates.com/Expertise.html) which I did saving MSFT Word as HTML. I am trying to migrate to WP. What’s quite easy in Word, is NOT in WP’s editor.
But, I found that if you click in a table in the WP Visual editor IN THE EXACT CELL that you wish to modify width on, you can control NOT ONLY the width of that cell, but the whole column, if you wish. Totally non-intuitive… but such is what happens when developers work without a Product Manager! ??
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