1>. Turning Number Recognition On or Off in Tables

Trine Office can automatically recognize numbers or dates that you enter into a table cell, converting them from text to an appropriate number format. Use Table - Number Format to change the display of the entered value.

When an input cannot be recognized as a number, the number category changes to Text and the input is not changed.

If Number recognition is not marked, numbers are saved in text format and are automatically left-aligned.

To enable or disable this feature, do one of the following:

• Choose Table - Number Recognition.

  When this feature is on, a check mark is displayed in front of the Number Recognition command.

• Choose Tools - Options - Trine Office Writer - Table, and select or clear the Number Recognition check box.

This feature applies globally to all tables in all documents. When enabled, typing a date or number into a table cell will result in automatic formatting. Enabling and disabling this feature does not change existing data formatting.

2>. Modifying Rows and Columns by Keyboard

When you insert or delete cells, rows or columns in a table, the Behavior of rows/columns options determine how the neighboring elements are affected. For example, you can only insert new rows and columns into a table with fixed row and column dimensions if space permits.
    Note that these properties are valid only for changes to the column width that are made using the keyboard. Using the mouse, you are free to make any column width changes.

To set the Behavior of rows/columns options for tables in text documents, choose Tools - Options - Trine Office Writer - Table. There are three display modes for tables:

• Fixed - changes only affect the adjacent cell, and not the entire table. For example, when you widen a cell, the adjacent cell becomes narrower, but the width of the table remains constant.

• Fixed, proportional - changes affect the entire table, and wide cells shrink more than narrow cells. For example, when you widen a cell, the adjacent cells become proportionally narrower, but the width of the table remains constant.

• Variable - changes affect the table size. For example, when you widen a cell, the width of the table increases.
   

3>. Deleting Tables or the Contents of a Table

You can delete a table from your document, or delete the contents of the table.

• To delete a whole table, click in the table, and then choose Table - Delete - Table.

• To delete the contents of a table, click in the table, press Ctrl+A until all cells are selected, and then press Delete or Backspace.
  
   

4>.Inserting Tables

There are several ways to create a table in a text document. You can insert a table from a toolbar, through a menu command, or from a spreadsheet.

To Insert a Table From a Toolbar

1. Place the cursor in your document where you want to insert the table.

2. On the Standard or the Insert bar, click the arrow next to the Table icon.

3. In the table grid, drag to select the numbers of rows and columns that you want, and then release.

To cancel, drag to the other side until Cancel appears in the preview area of the grid.

To Insert a Table With a Menu Command

1. Place the cursor in your document where you want to insert the table.

2. Choose Table - Insert Table.

3. In the Size area, enter the number of rows and columns.

4. Select the options that you want, click OK.

To Insert a Table From a Calc Spreadsheet

1. Open the LibreOffice Calc spreadsheet containing the cell range that you want to insert.

2. In the spreadsheet, drag to select the cells.

3. Choose Edit - Copy.

4. In your text document, do one of the following:

• Choose Edit - Paste. The cell range is pasted as an OLE object. To edit the contents of the cells, double-click the object.

• Choose Edit - Paste Special

Drag-and-Drop a Cell Range From a Calc Spreadsheet

1. Open the LibreOffice Calc spreadsheet containing the cell range that you want to insert.

2. In the spreadsheet, drag to select the cells.

3. Click and hold the mouse button in the selected cells.

4. Drag the selected cells into the text document.

5>.Repeating a Table Heading on a New Page

You can repeat a table heading on each new page that the table spans.

1. Choose Table - Insert Table.

2. Select the Heading and the Repeat heading rows on new pages check boxes.

3. Select the number of rows and columns for the table.

4. Click OK.