[libreoffice-users] Re: Creating a table with equal sized rows

Hi, Remy,

Before I forget this, I "regressed" to 5.2.7 to see if the StartCenter 
file loading problem I found in 5.3.1.6 was solved.  I will have to 
create some documents to know the current status.

I could not get your idea to work.  In fact, I just spent 3-4 hours 
trying to get your idea and LO's labels feature to work.  And it didn't. 
 :-(

This is what I am trying to do, create a page of labels to fit Avery 
label #18294.

LO's label creation cannot create a page for Avery letter sized labels, 
#18294.  But neither can MS Word for Mac 2011 and Softmaker Office 2016 
for Windows.  Printing on the label slowly moves lower on each label and 
you get closer to the bottom of the page.  Or it moves up on the label.

Why does it do this?  I think it's because you cannot enter the correct 
size for the height of the label.  In all 3 programs you can only enter 
.66" or .67" for the height.  But neither number is correct.  The actual 
size of the label is two-thirds of an inch, a repeating decimal  to 
infinity, I.E. .66666666666666666 with 6's going on forever.  So, if the 
programmers formulas for calculating height is limited to 2 decimal 
places, there is no option but to have a built-in error.

It had been suggested to me, somewhere, to use a table.  And that's 
where the problem of the extra line feed, that is unnecessary if you 
change the program code, comes into play.
And you end up screwing around and wasting your time with all the 
various workarounds.

Anyway, I created a frame, and sized it to fit the page margins I had 
set up.  Those margins were the ones that should fit the area of the 
sheet of labels I wish to print.  Then, I created a table inside the frame.

I was never able to get the column widths to be correct.  In the Table 
Properties, I typed in the exact dimensions of the for the columns, had 
all the text offsets I could find set to 0", and then LO would simply 
change the widths to whatever when I exited the dialogue.

So I went to the Avery website, downloaded and installed their Design 
and Print software.  In 10-15 minutes, I had a page of labels that fit.

From now on, it's the Avery software for me, when it comes to labels. 
I am going to install the current version of Open Office, see if it has 
the same problems.  :-)





On 9/17/17 2:08 PM, Remy Gauthier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You can place the table in a frame that is set to be behind the text on
> the page (this will remove the space taken by the paragraph mark after
> the table on the page but not in the frame). Anchor the frame to the
> page, with the top at 0 cm from the text zone. Place the data in your
> table and then spread the rows evenly in the table (from the table
> menu). By adjusting the height of your table, you should be able to fit
> it between your top and bottom margins. This is the easiest way I can
> think of, but it is not straightforward.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Rémy Gauthier.
>
> Le dimanche 17 septembre 2017 à 12:42 -0600, Ken Springer a écrit :
> > Libre Office 5.3.6.1
> >
> > Mac OS X 10.11.6 El Capitan
> >
> > I've been trying to find a way to easily create a table that starts at
> > the top margin, ends at the bottom margin, with all rows the same
> > height, and not create a blank page at the end of the document.
> >
> > Can this be done?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Ken
> > Mac OS X 10.11.6
> > Firefox 53.0.2  (64 bit)
> > Thunderbird 52.0
> > "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash
> >        and it's gone!"


--
Ken
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Firefox 53.0.2  (64 bit)
Thunderbird 52.0
"My brain is like lightning, a quick flash
      and it's gone!"


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