diff --git a/components/console/helpers/table.rst b/components/console/helpers/table.rst
index 73a5d6ce8e2..65d887bbe71 100644
--- a/components/console/helpers/table.rst
+++ b/components/console/helpers/table.rst
@@ -66,15 +66,17 @@ You can add a table separator anywhere in the output by passing an instance of
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     +---------------+--------------------------+------------------+
 
-The width of the columns are automatically set using the width of their contents
-by default. You can control the minimum widths via :method:`Symfony\\Component\\Console\\Helper\\Table::setColumnWidths`::
+By default the width of the columns is calculated automatically based on their
+contents. Use the :method:`Symfony\\Component\\Console\\Helper\\Table::setColumnWidths`
+method to set the column widths explicitly::
 
-    // the widths will expand to be bigger if necessary
-    // here, the left two columns will be 13 & 24 characters to fit their content
+    // ...
     $table->setColumnWidths(array(10, 0, 30));
     $table->render();
-    
-This code results in:
+
+In this example, the first column width will be ``10``, the last column width
+will be ``30`` and the second column width will be calculated automatically
+because of the ``0`` value. The output of this command will be:
 
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@@ -88,6 +90,21 @@ This code results in:
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     +---------------+--------------------------+--------------------------------+
 
+Note that the defined column widths are always considered as the minimum column
+widths. If the contents don't fit, the given column width is increased up to the
+longest content length. That's why in the previous example the first column has
+a ``13`` character length although the user defined ``10`` as its width.
+
+You can also set the width individually for each column with the
+:method:`Symfony\\Component\\Console\\Helper\\Table::setColumnWidth` method.
+Its first argument is the column index (starting from ``0``) and the second
+argument is the column width::
+
+    // ...
+    $table->setColumnWidth(0, 10);
+    $table->setColumnWidth(2, 30);
+    $table->render();
+
 The table style can be changed to any built-in styles via
 :method:`Symfony\\Component\\Console\\Helper\\Table::setStyle`::