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

On Mar 2, 2011, at 01:14 , Barbara Duprey wrote:

> 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.

Thanks, Barbara.  When one understands - and has a workaround - it's really a brilliant idea.  I 
remember that I have at times wondered how to create a paragraph before a table after creating the 
table.  Now it's almost automatic to put a couple of carriage returns in before creating the table.

//James
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