Description: from irc: <jwash> in ms word i can have a text file with one piece of data on a line, then i can specify that my table should be 7 columns wide and word will make the table 7 columns wide, each row starting on the 8th piece of data. is there an equivalent for Libreoffice Writer? <mikekaganski> jwash: no; you are welcome to file a request to enhance Table->convert Steps to Reproduce: 1. Paste the following in a text file: a b c d a b c d a b c d Actual Results: a b c d a b c d a b c d Expected Results: a,b,c,d or a|b|c|d a,b,c,d or a|b|c|d a,b,c,d or a|b|c|d a,b,c,d or a|b|c|d Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: a,b,c,d or a|b|c|d a,b,c,d or a|b|c|d a,b,c,d or a|b|c|d a,b,c,d or a|b|c|d
delimiter should be user defined: \t , | ; etc
Created attachment 178627 [details] Word 2016 "Convert Text to Table" dialog (In reply to nutrientman from comment #0) > Steps to Reproduce: The original steps are not precise. The proposal is to improve the existing Table->Convert->Text to Table function. So here are the steps: 1. Paste the text from #1 of comment 0. 2. Select the pasted text, and open menu Table->Convert->Text to Table. 3. Try to use 'Separate Text At'->'Paragraph', or any other setting, to define that the text should be split to *some number of columns* using paragraphs. In fact, the 'Paragraph' setting makes no difference compared to any other option in the dialog; and the dialog does not provide a way to control resulting number of columns to override automatic conversion. For comparison, the attachment shows how Word's respective function looks like; and you can directly control the number of resulting columns there.