It has taken me quite a while to get some insight into the table formatting issues. Twenty six year old Listserv lists are not the most effective means of knowledge sharing. That set aside, the fact of the matter is that maintaining a company style in Writer tables is a rather tedious chore. I maintain a couple of 1000+ page documents which contain many tables. For this type and size of document, Writer is superb over the "competition". There is however one but...
That is the lack of table styles. I tried as a work around to apply a user defined autoformat to all tables. But unfortunately there is a bug in autoformats. Back in 20008 this bug has already been reported to the OOo community (http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=94630). I have later on added comments to that report. Because it got little attention, I have taken the liberty of posting it with reference again to the Libo community (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31005). Forgive me if I have infringed on the rules of double posting by doing so. I found the issue important enough to bring to the attention again, and I must admit, also as a test to see if Libo was really going to live up with its promises. I have discussed this issue directly with two core actors in the Libo community who bot advised me to post the problem on this list. Unfortunately I am not a programmer, so I can not solve this myself. I can offer my time for thoroughly testing any early or late implementations that solve this problem. For me the solution is not necessarily in fixing the table autoformats. A more principled solution using table styles or table cell styles (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34391) would be great. I would appreciate that solving this issue would get a higher priority than it presently has. thank you for your attention, Pieter Zanstra -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
