PaulEC Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 Something that I would find very useful would be to create a table that spans several pages, and dynamically adjusts to fit the pages when rows are added or removed. For example, the sort of thing I need to do is create a telephone list, in alphabetical order, of around 1000 staff, so that when people are added or leave I can add or remove entries and the table reformats to fit the pages/frames. Alternatively, it would be good to be able to import a table from Excel etc and have it flow through frames in the same way as in text frames. AFAIK this isn't possible at the moment (if it is I'd be grateful for advice about how to do it). If not I would like to suggest that it might be added. PaoloT and Ron Broach 2 Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 10 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garrettm30 Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 1 hour ago, PaulEC said: Alternatively, it would be good to be able to import a table from Excel etc and have it flow through frames in the same way as in text frames. AFAIK this isn't possible at the moment (if it is I'd be grateful for advice about how to do it). If not I would like to suggest that it might be added. Now that a beta with data merge just came out, I think it just might be possible to achieve. Rather than setting it up as a table, I think in your case you could set it up with tabs carefully defined in the paragraph style. As for the table headings, since Publisher can't yet do multi-page tables, I would set up the table headings as a master page. PaulEC 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulEC Posted October 15, 2020 Author Share Posted October 15, 2020 Thanks for that. I'll have to investigate Data Merge further. 😊 Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 10 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Kenson Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 Just following up on this conversation to say that the ability to do multi-page tables, and tables that break across pages, in Affinity Publisher would be most welcome. PaoloT and Ron Broach 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaoloT Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 As someone who has just finished laying out >300 pages of long tables, I couldn't be more in agreement with this request! Paolo Ron Broach, Dazmondo77 and sfriedberg 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Broach Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 I'll add my voice to this thread, and say tables spanning pages would be a wonderfully useful feature. I frequently use tables in business quotes (Item/price/function lists) and this would be most helpful. PaoloT 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbacoreworks Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 Coming here in July 2023 using Affinity Publisher 2 -- is this still a wish list item? I can't find any information other than these old posts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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