Re: [libreoffice-users] Expanding top cell of table

On 3/1/2011 1:48 AM, James Wilde wrote:
> Discovered two interesting 'features' by accident this weekend.  This is one of them.
>
> I have given up on using mailmerge.  The labels never print out as you want them.  So I decided to 
> create a table looking like the template for a sheet of mailing labels.  I got one very unexpected 
> result.  Try this:
>
> Create a table with three columns and eight rows.
> Place cursor in the first cell on the SECOND row and press return six times.  The cell expands
> Place cursor in the third, fourth, etc, to eighth row and press return six times.  The cells expand.
> Now place the cursor in the first cell on the FIRST row and press return six times.
>
> The table moves six rows down, and the first row is still only one line deep.
>
> To open up the first row, you have to press return once (moving the table down one unnecessary row) 
> then move the cursor again into the first cell and press return the six times you need.  Finally 
> you can go outside the table and delete the extra row by which you moved the table down.
>
> Not something one does every day, but someone might like to take a look at it.
>
> //James

Having a paragraph appear before the table when you use Enter at the beginning of the first cell is 
not at all unexpected; it's the standard way to create a paragraph before a table when it is at the 
beginning of a page. Another way to get the effect you wanted would be to start the first cell with 
a space, then your six Enters, after which you could delete the extra space. Or create your second 
row as you did here, then copy/paste into the first cell. Various other things would work, too.

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