On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 12:29:08PM +0200, Vladimir Milovanovic wrote: > As much as I enjoy working in LyX, whenever I have to insert a table > I cringe. > My current problem: I want to break the text in the tables into lines, > so I set the fixed cell width and the text does break, The problem is, > that all the cells in that coloumn become the same height as the title > cell, making the table unspeakably ugly. I have looked in the docs and > it says nothing about it. > Please help, at this point I am ready to start making tables in a > spreadsheet and insert them into LyX as pictures. Madness!!
It is not clear what you want to do. IF you need a "multi-row cell", then you need to convert the appropriate cells to multicolumn, remove the vertical lines for these cells, and enter the text (breaking it manually). See attached file.
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