While triaging bug 150152 I came across another opportunity to improve the dialog: table formats will always assume that the last row is a Total Row. Therefore, if you simply want banded rows without total rows, you simply cannot do that in a table where the number of rows is even (4, 6, 8, ... rows). Steps to reproduce: 1) Open Writer and insert a table with 4 rows and 5 colums 2) Go to Table - AutoFormat Styles 3) Select the style "Simple Grid Rows" and click OK The resulting table has the last 2 rows with grey background. There is no way to disable the Total Row and have the last row in white color. What I'm proposing is to add a "Total row" checkbox that disable the application of the total row format.
I confirm the described behaviour with Version: 7.3.5.2 (x64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 184fe81b8c8c30d8b5082578aee2fed2ea847c01 CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19044; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI: en-GB Calc: CL but I don't know, if every table style has a total row as last row. If this is true, I support the idea. We could add that option at 1) Insert table dialog 2) AutoFormat dialog cc: Design-Team
The legacy "autoformat" dialog indeed misses this option. However, we wanted to retire it and have a new UI as requested in bug 105933. So adding it could be an intermediate solution but hard to say if it's worth the effort.