Putting together a table in Microsoft Word starts off fairly simple with Word's automatic table insertion feature, but things can go off the rails quickly if you accidentally resize a cell by ...

Wrangle unruly text into easy-to-read formats using Word 2013's improved tables features.

The article How to control a Word table’s horizontal alignment shows you how to manually align tables between the left and right margins. It’s a quick task when working with only a few tables.