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 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 you time > to look into other ways of doing the job. > > Just a bit of brain-storming ... > * Would Base's Forms or Reports be a better way of doing this? > * How about using html? > * If there is not much text between tables then Calc might be useful and > much simpler. > * Might it be possible to work on the xml inside the .Odt container format? > [1] > * In CV Alkan's answer does Ctrl x (or other way of doing a "Cut") have the > same effect and can the contents of the table then be pasted into a new table > without altering it's layout? > * Again, could Frank's method be adapted using Ctrl Shift v (or other way of > doing "paste special") to paste and does that neatly replace the original > table with the new layout? > > [1] You know that if you rename the file-ending from .odt to .zip then you > can open it as a zip-file. Inside there are some folders and xml files and > things. Of course it is usually best to create a copy of the original file > and do the renaming and other work on the back-up jic something goes wrong > while you experiment with it. > > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > > On 18 March 2015 at 19:30, fang <st...@harpservices.com > <mailto:st...@harpservices.com>> wrote: > 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 > > <mailto:ml-node%2bs969070n4143666...@n3.nabble.com>> wrote: > > > > Hi - > > > > The way I do this is to simply copy the table I want to mimic. Table | > > Select | Table | Ctrl+C > > > > Then paste it at the location I want. Ctrl+V > > > > Then select the pasted table. Table | Select | Table > > > > Then press the Delete key. You might think this would delete the table, but > > it just deletes the contents, leaving styles, backgrounds, borders and > > things all the same. It will also keep the repeat rows for header property > > as well. > > > > For tables that will repeat a lot, thia is much easier. 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