Surely it's not that difficult. There are icons that allow you to align things left, right or centred, and you can set margins within cells, I think. Certainly when I see things wrong in a column, it's a matter of seconds to highlight it and hit the relevant icon.
On 24 Jun 2012 at 13:59, Dwayne Henderson wrote: Send reply to: [email protected] Date sent: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 13:59:01 +0200 Subject: Re: [Calc] Feature request: An easier way of laying out form elements From: Dwayne Henderson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] > Regina, > > It's cool you want maximum consistency - the same stuff for Writer as > for Calc. > > I think the two cases are a little bit different though. In Writer, > the whole page is the canvas, whereas in Calc each cell is a canvas, > if you know what I mean. > > Personally I'm just seeking a way to automatically position form > elements within their cells, so I don't have to manually position > things using all sorts of ugly numbers. > > There is snapping, yes, but to what? An invisible grid that is totally > different from the border grid? That makes no sense. > > Lots of stuff to be improved here. Have a good day ma'am! > > --Dwayne > > On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Regina Henschel > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Hi Dwayne, > > Dwayne Henderson schrieb: > > > > What do you guys think? > >> > >> http://i.imgur.com/iSrzf.png vs http://i.imgur.com/esY1o.png > >> > >> https://issues.apache.org/ooo/**show_bug.cgi?id=119671<https://issu > >> es.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=119671> > >> > >> > > I personally like this approach: > > > > 1. I like to get something like "Anchor as character" is in Writer > > for Calc too. Such anchored object would always be completely > > inside its parent cell (which may be merged cells too). The position > > would be relative to the anchor, the same way as it is now for > > "anchor to frame" in Writer. > > > > Snapping to grid while creating or modifying is not persistent. You > > loose alignments, when the column widths or row heights are changed. > > Nevertheless the currently available snapping can be improved. > > > > 2. I like to get formatting styles for form controls for all > > modules, not only in Calc. Such formatting style would contain all > > the settings, which are now already possible for graphic objects in > > Draw/Impress. > > > > 3. I like to get formatting styles for graphic objects in Writer and > > Calc, so that graphic objects and form controls are handled equally > > in all modules. > > > > Kind regards > > Regina > > > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**---- > > ----- To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > ooo-users-unsubscribe@**incubator.apache.org<ooo-users-unsubscribe@i > > ncubator.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: > > ooo-users-help@incubator.**apache.org<[email protected] > > e.org> > > > > > Niall Martin Phone 0131 4678468 Please reply to: niall<at>rndmartin.cix.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
