https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93400

            Bug ID: 93400
           Summary: Allow for default and automatic table format
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 5.0.0.5 release
          Hardware: Other
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: severo...@gmail.com

Tables are elements whose style or format is currently non-definable in a
template. This results in a cumbersome experience if you are working on a
document where lots of tables need to be created, like scientific documents.

Only the "Table Format" dialog that is created when one accesses an individual
table's properties allows for the customization of all the important attributes
of a table (size, alignment, spacing, text flow options, borders and inner
spacing) except its aesthetic style, which is only practically set by using the
table Autoformat options. It seems unnatural that these two table customization
tools are separate.

I think this problem may have different solutions; I will chip in with mine
below.

The table Autoformat dialog, upon the creation of a new table format, must
adopt all the relevant attributes of the source (selected) table (namely size,
alignment, spacing, text flow options, borders and inner spacing, besides the
color data which it already saves). (It should also include an "Update" action,
but this is out of the scope of this bug.)
It should also allow for a specific table (auto)format to be set as default, so
that every new table created adopts this (auto)format automatically.
Additionally, in the Table Format dialog, an Autoformat tab must exist, so that
the user can change the table's (auto)format from the said dialog.

Of course, the best solution to this bug will only be revealed after you post
your ideas and the best is selected.

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