At 13:54 04/08/2011 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
In Writer, when inserting a new table it takes the width of the page.
By default, yes - but that can easily be modified.
I have three different situations that I cannot make my table fit:
1) Place the table in the upper right corner of the page and have
the text flow around it.
2) Place the table in the vertical-middle of the page on the right
side and have the text flow around it.
1) Place the table on the bottom of the page, full width.
(Er, would that be "3"?!) I think tables behave like text, so other
text precedes or follows them, with the results that you see.
Right clicking the table and playing around with the context menu
items yields me nothing. Dragging the margins of the table prevents
text from flowing around it. Putting the table in a footer leaves a
newline below the table.
You can avoid all your problems, I think, by putting your tables in
frames. Frames can be manipulated in the ways that you need,
specifically with other text wrapping around them - and indeed in
variety of ways. The frame need have no border and need have no
spacing from the contained table, so it can be totally invisible in
the final result. And to answer the point in your subject: you can
drag the completed table-within-frame around the page easily as you need.
Oh, and that empty paragraph below a table: go to Format |
Frame/Object... | Type | Size | Height (or right-click | Frame... |
Type | Size | Height) and remove the tick from AutoSize. Now you can
reduce the frame height to cover this.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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