https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146841
Bug ID: 146841
Summary: Feature Request: Convert Text to Table: "Number of
Columns" option
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 7.2.5.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: brian.the2br...@virginmedia.com
Description:
It would be useful to be able to make a multi-column table when using the
"Convert-text-to-Table" operation.
I have a document where there is a list of countries and each country has some
data related to it. The each item of the data is on its own line following the
country name. Hence the file is a lot of lines grouped in blocks of 6.
When I do "Convert text to table" I get a table with a single column, each row
being one of the items in the text.
I have played around with the "Find & Replace" tool, but it's been quite hard
work (with the reported "possible bug" throwing up a smokescreen). It would be
so much more efficient if the "Convert" tool would do it.
What I have in mind is an option to choose the number of columns that the
created table would have. Then the items of text would be fed into the table
row by row. In my case, each row would begin with the name of the country and
the other columns would have the 5 numbers related to that country.
I suppose it would be the responsibility of the user to ensure that the data
structure of the input text was well-formed, but you could also have some sort
of "end-of-block" character to trigger "Go to next row" in case you had a
missing item in one block.
Actual Results:
Request
Expected Results:
A table of several columns (many rows), number of columns corresponding to the
number of data items in a block in the input text
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
Additional Info:
I tried reading the text file into "Calc". It put all the data into a single
cell! 😂
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