Text Document and tables

andrew · Sentinel Joined: Mar 15, 2005 Posts: 20

Quicksilver G4 10.3.8
NeoofficeJ 1.1 Release Candidate Patch 1

Been using neoofficej for a couple of months for work at home for my business.
Very nice.
No complaints todate.

Have noticed.
On text documents when using tables that when the table is more than one page long, the table will split between the two pages, leaving sometimes a section of empty page at the bottom of the previous page.
Had a play with table format and unable to see a change which would change this, played with differing ticked boxes with no result.
I know from my use of MWord that the actual cell will split between the two pages. i.e formating looks good.

Any ideas of how to fix this ?
It would be nice as I can then start using presentation tables for my home business.
Please note that I have no terminal experience.
Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
Andrew lost in china.

Petrushka · Agent Joined: Apr 11, 2005 Posts: 13 Location: New Zealand

This is normal OpenOffice.org behaviour -- i.e. an issue with OpenOffice.org, rather than with NeoOffice/J per se -- and unfortunately I don't think there's any way to change it. I agree it can be very annoying. Perhaps some guru can enlighten both of us on some preference to tweak somewhere - but I doubt it. Sorry.

The workaround I've had to learn to live with is: keep table cells small.

andrew · Sentinel Joined: Mar 15, 2005 Posts: 20

Thank you for that.
Hope there is a work around from someone in the know.

Andrew
Lost in china

RGH · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 9:45 am Post subject:

Just a quick rider to the table problem. I have previously posted a similar complaint, including the observation that a table which is more than a page long will disappear under the footer and not split and flow over the page. Actually I think it is bad practice to have such big cells in a table, although people do insist soemtimes on doing it. Nevertheless the software ought to be able to handle it.

My (rather tedious) solution is to reformat the cell by splitting it into several rows each of which are only a few lines long. Boring and slow though.

All in all though, I am very happy with Neo. It is much more stable now and does pretty much all that I want it to. Congratulations to the team.

Rob Heather

sardisson · Town Crier Joined: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 4588

You might try posting your questions on one of the forums listed in the "User Guides, other Forums..." sticky topic. While we know a lot about the ins and outs of Mac-specific OOo stuff here, we're not as proficient with all the details and work-arounds with the general behavior (like this tables question).

Neo/J 1.1 RC is equivalent to OOo 1.1.4.

Smokey

andrew · Sentinel Joined: Mar 15, 2005 Posts: 20

Thank you for your comments.
Yes it does appear to be an openoffice thing.
have posted a link with openoffice
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=19117
Smaller cells sizes are not really an option, the ability for the cell to split over a new page is a good thing - for presentation sake.
Shame. Will continue to work with it though.
Andrew
lost in china.