On Monday March 05 2007 9:41 am, Henk de Leeuw wrote:
> Richard Detwiler wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> 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.
While this too is a "work-a-round", it seems to work for me. If
placing the cursor in the first cell and pressing enter adds a line
above the table, place the cursor in the first row second cell. Then
press the Enter key. All cells of the first row now have two lines.
Dan
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