On Tuesday 11 October 2005 09:36 am, GC Fraser wrote:
> Santosh,
>
> I agree that this is a nuisance. Try this: before trying to
> delete, click in the table, select <Table|Convert|Table to Text>.
> This eliminates the table, you can then select the text to delete.
>
> HTH,
> MM
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Santosh Kumar Patangay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 9:57 AM
> > To: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: [users] Small but in OpenOfficeWriter
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > If CTRL+A is only selecting text within the table if that
> > is the case if the same thing if we do in word it is working
> > ..... Then It should not work there ....
> >
> > But when we do the same thing in other wordprocess like
> > ms-word there it is working fine..... Even there also we are
> > doing the same....
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wangshanpo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 7:09 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [users] Small but in OpenOfficeWriter
> >
> > Hello Santosh
> > This is not really a problem. CTRL+A is only selecting text within
>> the table, it cannot select the table, even though it appears to be
>> doing so. The DELETE key is designed primarily to delete *text*. It
>> is a feature of the keyboard and not of the word-processor.
> > You will find this to be true in using most word-processors.
> > Kind regards W
> >
> > Santosh Kumar Patangay wrote:
> > > Hi Friends ,
> > > I am Santosh and a new user my query is when we
>> > create a table in Open Office Writer by clicking the
>>>table-insert-table and we do some operations on that table it is
> > > working fine...
> > >
> > > When I want delete the empty table by selecting it with CONTROL +
> > > A and by using the DELETE button from KEYBOARD, the table is not
deleteing it..... will u people help out in this problem
> > >
> > > Any way there is an option to delete that empty table
> > > TABLE-DELETE-TABLE.... But when we select any item and use
> > > the delete button from the keyboard it should delete ... then what
> > > is the usage of delete button in the keyboard.......
> > --
> > Getting older, now at that stage
> > when I no longer have the energy
> > to attend to those things I couldn't
> > have time for in my youth!
Here is a way to do this that I have used for years with OOo. Use
Control+A to highlight all the entire table. Right click any cell.
Select Row from the context menu and Delete from the context menu of
Row. This works with the 1.1.x versions as well as with the pre-2.0
versions.
Dan
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