postmadesign Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 I would like to suggest a change to the way tables work in APub. As it is now I can set an exact value for the width of a column, but when I enlarge the table by dragging the handle on the right, all column widths are changed evenly. However I would want for the widths of the columns to be retained, especially when I set an exact value. In my opinion there needs to be the option at least to resize responsibly (as is the case now) or not. I am used to the way Indesign handles it, and it is just much more precise and easy to use. The same problem also occurs when I want to add a column in the middle of an existing table: instead of the columns to the right of the inserted column moving to the right, all columns are resized. This is just very annoying and I want an option to fix the width of a column, at the least when I have set exact values for the width. I am all for new solutions, but the solution for tables just does not make much sense to me most of the time. Joachim_L 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 100% ACK! Please change the current behaviour. EDIT: Just to add, please make a function Convert Text To Table. postmadesign 1 Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cableguy Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 (edited) +1 on this. I'm just working on my first few tables in Affinity Publisher (after roughly 15 years of tables with InDesign), and I basically end up setting all the column widths by hand again and again. Sometimes, InDesign gets weird in that respect too, but there I can just run an AppleScript to set my column widths the way I want them to be. Exactly as you said in your previous post, when I paste into a table from Excel, there's a bug where an extra column gets tacked on. That also happens when copying and pasting from another text frame in Affinity Publisher. When I remove that column, all the other column widths change. At least when I resize the text frame that contains the table, all the column widths go back to where they were before inserting the text into the table. Edited October 11, 2019 by cableguy Added more info about pasting content Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinko Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 On 10/11/2019 at 3:13 PM, Joachim_L said: 100% ACK! Please change the current behaviour. EDIT: Just to add, please make a function Convert Text To Table. +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bitterend Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 I find the current table formatting system really difficult. Using the table studio tool to resize a column width the adjcent colum is shrunk. This results in the column width being too small to select that column to resize it. Trying to drag the column with at the top of the table is not much easier. The arrows selection area is soo small and sensitive that I keep creating a new table. In page plus it was far easier to OLE a table and then resize Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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