Brian Barker has written on 7/4/2014 1:55 PM: > At 13:22 04/07/2014 -0400, Pikov Andropov wrote: >>I created a 2 x 2 table in an LO doc. In the upper left cell, I >>created an 8 x 14 table and filled in all its headings, etc. I >>thought that if I then selected that table and Edit > copy, I could >>Edit > Paste it into another cell. BUT, only one line gets pasted. >>Does that mean I have to create the table manually in each of the other cells? > > No. If you select the inner table, you effectively select all its > contents, and when you paste that into a table cell, the contents of > those cells are - as far as possible - distributed between existing > cells of that table. This is not what you want, of course. > > Instead, you need to select not the inner table but the cell of the > outer table containing it. I think that in order to do this you need > to have something - even just an empty paragraph - outside the inner > table and before it. Then you can select the cell of the outer table > either by dragging the cursor, or using Edit | Select All (or > Ctrl+A), or using Table | Select > | Cells. Once you have this > selection, you can copy it and paste it with the effect you desire. > > If you have nothing before the inner table, you can add something in > order to effect the copy and remove it afterwards, of course. You > cannot add an empty paragraph simply by pressing Enter, as you cannot > position the cursor where it would need to be to achieve this. > Instead, put the cursor at the very beginning of the first cell of > the inner table and press Alt+Enter. > > I trust this helps.
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