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Chapter 3: Managing Text Documents With Writer

Inserting Paragraphs Before Tables at Start of Page

Occasionally a table will get inserted at the very beginning of a text document or

immediately after a fixed page break, and now text must be inserted before this table. This is

not difficult but how to do it can be puzzling. Here's how:

1. Place the cursor in the first cell of the table, right at the start of any content in that cell.

2. Press Enter, which adds a paragraph before the table and moves the cursor to it.

1. Formatting Tables in Text Documents

A new table inserted into a text document can have the default format which means that the

first row has the Paragraph Style “Table Heading”, and all other rows will have the

“Table Contents” Style. Text entered in the first row will automatically be bolded and

centered. This section describes various formatting options that can be used to determine the

overall appearance of a table.

Resize columns, rows, and cells

Table columns and rows can easily be resized just by moving their borders. One can also

easily merge ranges of cells into a single cell, or split individual cells horizontally or

vertically. For this there are icons on the Table toolbar, called Merge Cells and Split Cells,

which can be used, or use the corresponding entries in the Table menu. This gives great

flexibility in formatting any table.

Table AutoFormat

To quickly set up existing tables, a number of predefined table styles are available via the

Table > AutoFormat dialogue.

Auto formatting cannot be applied, however, if the table has already had it's cell structure

modified (cells merged or split, even if cells were merged and then restored to their original

split state, et cetera).

Table properties in general

With the cursor in the table, open the Table Format dialogue either with the menu command

Table > Properties or the Table command in the context menu.

To change the table background, for example, proceed as follows:

1. Select the cells to which to assign a background colour.

2. Now, either choose Table > Properties or click Table in the context menu of the selected

cells.

3. In the Table Format dialogue, click the Background tab.

Notice the two list boxes at the top of the dialogue. In the left box, choose a colour or

graphics as the background. In the right box, define whether to apply the background to

the selected cells, the whole row, or the entire table. Cell formatting takes priority over

row formatting.

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