On 2007-08-25 @ 14:35:00 (week 34) Joe Smith wrote: > It does seem rather odd that there are char, pp, list, frame and page > styles, but no table styles. > > It has been requested as an enhancement: > http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=11121 > > You can register and add a comment or vote there. Hard to say from that > whether there's any possibility of it happening. It would require a > major(?) change in the file format, which is always a big deal (i.e. delay).
Thanks for that info! > In the meantime, there is a reasonable workaround: just put your tables > inside a frame. The frame can have a style, including the space around > (including below) it (Format > Frame > Wrap). > > Of course that's still more work than just inserting a table, and you > can accomplish the same thing by copy&paste of a table with spacing > added, but at least the frame would have a true style where you could > adjust the spacing (as well as a lot of other layout settings) easily > for all tables. > > You can define an autotext holding an empty table in a frame; using that > would be almost as easy as simply inserting a table: 'TF' (two-letter > shortcut), F3. Nice idea. It's still a workaround, but I do like the idea. It's either this one, or an invisible character with a special style after all tables. I am off experimenting... Grx HdV --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
