Richard Detwiler wrote:
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When a table is at the beginning of a new page, it is not possible to
position the cursor 'before' it.
So, if I type a word at he top of the page, and insert a table after
it, it's OK.
If I first create the table, there is no way to enter the word before
it!
That makes it impossible to select/copy/replace _just_ the table.
I can select the table together with the preceding page break, but
that is not what I want.
Henk de Leeuw.
There IS a way to insert a blank line before a table which is at the
top of a document. It doesn't seem like this should work, but it does,
try it and verify for yourself.
Put the insertion point at the left edge of the top left cell in the
table. Then press Enter. A line has now been inserted above the table.
An interesting thing is that this only adds a line above the table if
there is no line currently there (in other words, if the table is at
the very top of the document). If there is already a line above the
table, this does not add another line above the table, but instead
does what you'd probably expect it to do (adds a line within the table
cell).
Yes, after I posted my reply, I read the whole bug report pointed to by
Joe Smith, and found this workaround.
It is amusing to see that cloph (an OpenOffice developer?) describes it
as "_of_course_ you can add a paragraph before that table" (emphasis
mine) whereas the "solution" is as counter-intuitive as can be, and
seems to have been added as a dirty fix.
This fix makes it more difficult than necessary to add a second line to
the first cell of a table at the top of a page:
move table one line down, add line to the first cell, move table one
line up.
And I wonder why it would need a complete redesign of the table concept
in order to fix this.
I'm thinking of a simpler fix; if it should happen to work, I will send
the idea to the bugs list.
Henk de Leeuw.
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