[libreoffice-users] Re: Multiple Tables In Writer Document

2015-03-18 Thread fang
Hi Frank, That’s interesting and useful but this is a dynamic document. Tables may have to be changed frequently without deleting content. Thanks for the reply, Steve On Mar 18, 2015, at 3:25 PM, CVAlkan [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] ml-node+s969070n4143666...@n3.nabble.com

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Multiple Tables In Writer Document

2015-03-18 Thread Steve Harp
Hi Tom, My platform is OS X. I only use Mac or Linux and avoid Windows like the plague. Yes. I know that ODF is basically just a zip file. Steve On Mar 18, 2015, at 5:12 PM, Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi :) Did you let us know which Operating System? Is it Windows 7? or

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Multiple Tables In Writer Document

2015-03-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Did you let us know which Operating System? Is it Windows 7? or could you let us know just the platform, such as Windows, Linux, Mac or BSD? Yes, this is no good as a long-term solution to your particular requirements - but it might be a good temporary work-around for right now giving

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Multiple Tables In Writer Document

2015-03-17 Thread Steve Edmonds
It is a pity you can't use a variable field in the formatting dialogues. That could be useful in a range of places. On 2015-03-18 02:34, fang wrote: Hi Tom, I’ve looked at styles and it’s not possible to modify table properties such as column widths using styles. There are Page, Paragraph

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Multiple Tables In Writer Document

2015-03-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Is this becoming something that could be posted as a feature request? It does sound like something that could be really useful and i'm surprised no-one has thought of it before. Perhaps they have and made an Extension? I doubt that too tbh. http://extensions.libreoffice.org/ Regards from

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Multiple Tables In Writer Document

2015-03-17 Thread Ralf Kersanach
Hi folks, I got probably an idea. If you do an continuous table which could fill several linked text frames, so you would change for example column size in the first frame and it would affect the size of that column through out every frame. Two points must be taken in consideration: 1- If

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Multiple Tables In Writer Document

2015-03-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I wonder if there is a Style for that sort of thing? Chapter 3 in the Getting Started Guide; https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications Regards from Tom :) On 16 March 2015 at 19:43, fang st...@harpservices.com wrote: Thanks for the reply, but that's sad. I'm using

[libreoffice-users] Re: Multiple Tables In Writer Document

2015-03-17 Thread fang
Hi Tom, I’ve looked at styles and it’s not possible to modify table properties such as column widths using styles. There are Page, Paragraph and Character styles but no Table styles. Thanks for the suggestion, Steve On Mar 17, 2015, at 9:02 AM, TomD [via Document Foundation Mail Archive]

[libreoffice-users] Re: Multiple Tables In Writer Document

2015-03-16 Thread fang
Thanks for the reply, but that's sad. I'm using the tables to format the document and need columns to align. Having to touch each table every time the format changes is a real bummer. -- View this message in context: