Cannot resize table columns in word 2013

I just had the issue on Word 2016. I disabled the "Different odd and even" header and footer option under Page Setup and the tables became editable. It is such a prohibitive bug ... seems like people usually do not use different formatting for odd and even pages (apart from publishers, which is why I stumbled accross this bug).

Hi, sorry I might have understanding problem with your remark on inserting textbox.

Im using Ms Words 2016, and I had used this morning to re-do the table & submitted my report. I also had deleted the copy with problem (I have a practice to clear my desktop of any redundant docs). Sorry im not sure how I can replicate this problem...

I created one table for my report & I will occasionally update the table with more info / delete some of the details inside.

I never said, or implied, anything about setting up a text box in tables.  The purpose of the text box was to avoid having to set different Left and Right margins IF for some reason, the required layout could not be achieved by setting a gutter margin.

Based on what you are saying in your second paragraph it seems that you are facing an issue that is different from that raised earlier in this thread, particularly if you have not set different left and right margins.

Can you advise what version of Office you are using and give a full description of the problem.  

In the original thread, it was only with the table on Even Numbered pages that there was an issue.   Is that also the case for you?

If you send me a copy of the document, referencing this thread in the covering email message, I will investigate the issue.

Do you need to have different left and right margins, rather than setting the margins equal and setting a Gutter margin.

If for some (strange) reason, you do want such page setup, instead of setting the margins to different values, insert a text box of the appropriate width and of a height equal to the vertical text space into both the Odd and the Even page Headers, with the text set to wrap square around the text boxes.

I never set up any specific margin, and due to number of cells in the table, I would rather not set up a text box in every cell so that i can resize my table again. 

I can always make a new table & copy the content to Notepad & paste the content again to the new table, but I would rather avoid this hassle by able to resize the table. Usually we can resize by dragging the line left right. In this case, the line jut snap back at the original place, no other method works (which i already tried almost everything suggested here)

I tried saving the documents in many other formats & even paste it in my outlook, still cant resize the table.

Do you need to have different left and right margins, rather than setting the margins equal and setting a Gutter margin.

If for some (strange) reason, you do want such page setup, instead of setting the margins to different values, insert a text box of the appropriate width and of a height equal to the vertical text space into both the Odd and the Even page Headers, with the text set to wrap square around the text boxes.