Bug 155618 - Allow resizing Writer tables by dragging while keeping proportions
Summary: Allow resizing Writer tables by dragging while keeping proportions
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 61835
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.5.3.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Blocks: Writer-Tables-Enhancements
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Reported: 2023-05-31 22:02 UTC by ksso
Modified: 2024-01-31 14:15 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Attachments
cant modify table behavior, bookbar doesn't hide easy (2.30 MB, video/x-matroska)
2023-05-31 22:20 UTC, ksso
Details
file used (26.39 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2023-12-01 21:35 UTC, ksso
Details
adjust table width as a whole easily (35.79 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2024-01-21 04:14 UTC, ksso
Details

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Description ksso 2023-05-31 22:02:40 UTC
Description:
try to customize table behavior (fixed or variable) but can't be done

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create a table
2.try to modify its behavior
3.can't be done

Actual Results:
can't modify table behavior

Expected Results:
modify


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
other issues with tables and display with views
Comment 1 ksso 2023-05-31 22:20:54 UTC
Created attachment 187631 [details]
cant modify table behavior, bookbar doesn't hide easy

cant modify table behavior, bookbar doesn't hide easy
Comment 2 m_a_riosv 2023-06-01 11:17:39 UTC
https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/swriter/guide/tablemode.html?DbPAR=WRITER#bm_id3155856

Have you tried with Menu/Table/Properties/Table or right-click Table properties?
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2023-11-29 03:14:29 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 ksso 2023-12-01 21:35:07 UTC
this report is about the difficult to adjust width of a table as a whole, and not to do it column by column

https://streamable.com/2totrf

https://gemoo.com/tools/upload-video/share/589326371196456960?codeId=Pa1yYO0ArWZRZ&card=589326367631253504

thank for your attention
Comment 5 ksso 2023-12-01 21:35:59 UTC
Created attachment 191188 [details]
file used

file used
Comment 6 QA Administrators 2023-12-02 03:16:37 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 Dieter 2023-12-16 16:01:02 UTC
(In reply to ksso from comment #4)
> this report is about the difficult to adjust width of a table as a whole,

1. Open table properties dialog
2. Tab "Table"
3. Select any alignment besides "automatic"
4. Change table width

Does this solve your problem?
=> NEEDINFO
Comment 8 ksso 2024-01-21 04:10:32 UTC
> this report is about the difficult to adjust width of a table as a whole,


1. Open table properties dialog
2. Tab "Table"
3. Select any alignment besides "automatic"
4. Change table width

Does this solve your problem?
Hi, thank you very much
Maybe not, because this is about the ability to adjust table width as a whole, not by doing it column by column

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11ltuHipKViLKxOm_zBVMCG6Qm-pOBVXM/view?usp=sharing

thanks you for the attention
Comment 9 ksso 2024-01-21 04:14:10 UTC
Created attachment 192081 [details]
adjust table width as a whole easily

Adjust the table width easily can't be done
Comment 10 QA Administrators 2024-01-22 03:12:08 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 11 Buovjaga 2024-01-31 13:00:36 UTC
Writer doesn't have the ability to grab a table by its corner and resize the whole thing while keeping the proportions like Impress.

You can tweak column widths proportionally via table properties and there is bug 114633 for improving the dialog.
Comment 12 Buovjaga 2024-01-31 13:06:52 UTC
Oh, looks like bug 61835 already asks for basically the same.

Regina has a hint there: "Use Alt+Left/Right Arrow to change column width while keeping the width of the other columns. Of cause this can only work as long as the entire table width fits into the text area width."

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 61835 ***
Comment 13 Heiko Tietze 2024-01-31 14:15:04 UTC
Put the table in frame to dynamically resize it. Besides, table management could be improved as requested in bug 113603.