Re: [icon-users] Table headings on each page (etc. wish list)

  • From: Richard Porter <ricp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: icon-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:29:43 GMT

On 31 Oct 2007 Mike Hobbs wrote:

> All the posts about tables and page breaking just reminded
> me about a feature I'd like to see one day. That is, being able
> to have a row of headings repeated at the top of every
> page when a table gets split by page breaks. Its a feature
> which exists in MS Word (although if its not automatic I
> wouldn't know how to achieve it). When tables get very
> large it can make them more easily readable.

Strictly speaking, the headings are repeated at the top of each 
column, whether it's on a new page or not. It saves a lot of bother.

> Another useful feature would be the ability to cut and paste
> chunks of table that straddle cells. I guess this might be
> rather difficult to program but it would help me a lot.

> Finally, a minor niggle, when you select all the text in a
> table cell and cut/delete it the cell border attribute gets
> deleted too. This is aggravating because you have to remember
> to select all bar one character and delete the last character
> with the delete key.

Can you use Ctrl/U to delete the contents of a cell?


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