limitation

dhu · Unread post by **dhu** » Sun May 04, 2003 5:37 pm

Why is there a limitation to 30 rows in table formatting? If using tables with more rows, the remaining rows will be radically cut off, when entering any number > 30 in dialog window. Of course you can insert additional rows - but beware to try to format the table later on... you'll lose all rows > 30.
Table handling still is messy and needs to be improved. Whoever worked with some larger tables know what I mean.

John Smith · Unread post by **John Smith** » Mon May 05, 2003 2:03 am

This is a known problem. It is a limitation to the current edit engine of H&M, which will be replaced in Vers 4.

There are even more problems with Tables, and doing a search in the Forum will find them.

I no longer work with large tables at all. In my project all my tables have been split into 1 or 2 rows to get around problem of tables not being automatically split in PDF at the end of a page. Unless you want to end up with a lot of blank spaces, or tables being cut off and NO data being displayed, keep your tables small.

dhu · Unread post by **dhu** » Mon May 05, 2003 12:43 pm

John Smith wrote:Unless you want to end up with a lot of blank spaces, or tables being cut off and NO data being displayed, keep your tables small.

I definitely would - alas, it's a lot of work doing it manually since there's no way to select parts of a table, copy them to clipboard and paste them as a new table...

John Smith · Unread post by **John Smith** » Mon May 05, 2003 11:25 pm

dhu wrote: I definitely would - alas, it's a lot of work doing it manually since there's no way to select parts of a table, copy them to clipboard and paste them as a new table...

True you have to copy the whole table, by selecting the text line before and after. But if your table is split into many small 1 row tables then you only have to copy the parts you want, as each is a table within itself.

Also remember Text can be converted to a table. You can have your text in a topic separated by TABS, copy what you need into another topic and then convert it to a table.