Publisher v2.2 on iPad: Editing tables is not working properly

[Affinity-Inspiration]

 I’ll attach a video, but there are a couple of things to report. I’ve already put one in the reporting section.

Selecting a set of cells for example, with intent to merge them fails to recognise the Pencil. Only using the finger tip lets it work to bring down the popup menu to select Merge Cells.

I can find no way to delete Columns or Rows. Again, only the finger tip works to open the popu menu, but even then tapping Delete achieves nothing. Getting the other popup menu with Delete Rows and Delete Columns to actually is very random, and crashes the app entirely as you will see.

Video showing actions.

[Dan C]

Thanks for your report @Affinity-Inspiration!

21 hours ago, Affinity-Inspiration said:

Selecting a set of cells for example, with intent to merge them fails to recognise the Pencil. Only using the finger tip lets it work to bring down the popup menu to select Merge Cells.

As mentioned in your thread here, this is expected behaviour in the Affinity apps, as we don't currently recognise the 'long press' action when using the Apple Pencil -

21 hours ago, Affinity-Inspiration said:

I can find no way to delete Columns or Rows. Again, only the finger tip works to open the popu menu, but even then tapping Delete achieves nothing.

There are a few things happening here -

Firstly the 'Quick Actions' menu will only appear with a long-press on screen, and therefore will only work with your finger to open this menu, as above.

Secondly, the 'Delete' option here acts the same as the Delete icon on the left hand toolbar and will not delete rows/columns, it should simply delete any text contents of the cell(s) you have selected.

21 hours ago, Affinity-Inspiration said:

Getting the other popup menu with Delete Rows and Delete Columns to actually is very random, and crashes the app entirely as you will see.

The pop-up menu with these options can be triggered by tapping once on the right hand side of any Row / Column label - which is the same behaviour as on desktop. Due to this being a singular 'tap' to open the menu, it can be achieved using either a finger or the Apple Pencil.

I can see the cause of the crash in your recording, after deleting the first column, the app does not correct select the next column in the table, instead only selecting the first cell. When then selecting delete column with only the first cell selected, the app crashes. I'll be logging this as a bug with our development team now.

I hope this helps