[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 99035] [Feature Request] "Convert text to table" lacks ' number of columns' option

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99035

--- Comment #16 from Paul <pbpublic@gmail.com> ---
Revisiting this, after quite a while (sorry, wasn't feeling too well back
then). I tried the trick of adding tabs to the first line, and indeed, this
creates a table with a corresponding number of columns, which is pretty neat.
But the data is not filled into those extra columns, they remain empty. The
data continues to be populated, each line into a new row. IOW, if the original
text is:

word tab tab
word2
word3
word4
word5
word6

It converts to:

word col2 col3
word2
word3
word4
word5
word6

Whereas I would like it to be:

word  word2  word3
word4 word5 word6

I format a lot of older public-domain documents, and I run into this
frequently. My personal take is that this functionality is pretty basic. I'm
surprised there hasn't been more call for it.

Since I seem to be the only one desiring this function, I think asking over at
the Ask is a good idea. I suppose a macro converting linefeeds to delimiters
within a selection, while leaving every Nth feed untouched, would be the
solution, applied before table conversion.

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