Hi!
I would like a feature where H+M would create a table using existing text.
Each new line would be a new row in a table. ";" "," and "tab" would be interpreted as a new column.
So
a
b
c
would result in a table with three rows, filled with a, b and c.
a;1
b;2
c;3
would result in a table with two columns and three rows.
I need to do this manally right now for thousands of lines of text and it is a huge pain
EDIT: For me it would be VERY important that this can be done with existing text already in the topic. A TSV/CSV importer would be great as well, but that would not really help in this situation.
Make table from existing text
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Re: Make table from existing text
Since you can paste tables from Word you can do this by converting the text to tables there and then pasting it into Help & Manual.
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Re: Make table from existing text
I would second this request.Tobias Escher wrote:I would like a feature where H+M would create a table using existing text.
Each new line would be a new row in a table. ";" "," and "tab" would be interpreted as a new column.
However, please not those delimiters, which may be needed in the text. I suggest the pipe character (| - Shift+Backslash) is the obvious choice, as it is clearly a divider, and is seldom used in plain text.
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Re: Make table from existing text
I do not have Word, but I will try in OpenOffice.
Would such a feature be hard to implement? Not having to copy everything Work, transform it and copy it back and adding a 2nd column would save days of work.
Again, we are talking about several hundred tables that need to be created. This is one of the features that would easily be worth an upgrade price for me simply because it saves hours each day.
Would such a feature be hard to implement? Not having to copy everything Work, transform it and copy it back and adding a 2nd column would save days of work.
Again, we are talking about several hundred tables that need to be created. This is one of the features that would easily be worth an upgrade price for me simply because it saves hours each day.