Bug 170713 - Ability to Edit Table Style from Insert Table dialog
Summary: Ability to Edit Table Style from Insert Table dialog
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
26.8.0.0 alpha0+ master
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Blocks: Writer-Table-Styles
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Reported: 2026-02-10 13:41 UTC by Telesto
Modified: 2026-02-11 10:33 UTC (History)
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Description Telesto 2026-02-10 13:41:28 UTC
Description:
Ability to Edit Table Style from Insert Table dialog

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Writer
2. CTRL+F12 (or Menu -> Table -> Insert Table)

Actual Results:
You can select a table style, but you can't create a new style or modify the existing style

Expected Results:
* It makes sense of being able to create/modify the table style before insertion of the table, for the people who know in advance what the want. However the Insert Table dialog doesn't allow this, so this introduces a disturbing this workflow. 

* You can't access AutoFormat Styles Dialog either, because it pre-requisites a table. 

* It's also proposed to remove AutoFormat Styles Dialog, which makes moving Edit Style to Insert Table sensible

* It would give Insert Table dialog an indirectly a Style Manager function. Not really problematic I think, but worth noting

I admit, it's little bit tricky though, because modifying a Table Style within Insert Table, isn't specific to the New Table. It will also affect existing tables with that style applied. 


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
Version: 26.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64)
Build ID: 680(Build:0)
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (build 19045); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: nl-NL (nl_NL); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 1 Heiko Tietze 2026-02-10 13:59:35 UTC
Don't think we should to mix two workflows into one dialog. Insert is insert and edit is edit. => -1
Comment 2 Telesto 2026-02-10 14:10:43 UTC
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #1)
> Don't think we should to mix two workflows into one dialog. Insert is insert
> and edit is edit. => -1

I surely grasp your principle  However I think this being to simplistic 
Having to go to different dialog for modifying/creating a style prior to insertion is also topsy-turvy. So you open the insert table dialog, want to insert a table. Realize the proper style isn't available. Having the close the Insert Table dialog to go to some other dialog to being able to add the style. Or inserting a table without formatting, to do it later on. The latter defies the point of having the ability to select a style in the first place

The alternative would be removing the Table Styles picker from the Insert Table dialog, and act similar to Impress
Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2026-02-11 08:40:13 UTC
(In reply to Telesto from comment #2)
> The alternative would be removing the Table Styles picker from the Insert
> Table dialog, and act similar to Impress
This would be my preference.
Comment 4 Telesto 2026-02-11 10:33:01 UTC
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #3)
> (In reply to Telesto from comment #2)
> > The alternative would be removing the Table Styles picker from the Insert
> > Table dialog, and act similar to Impress
> This would be my preference.

No strong preference from my side. Removal makes sense for cross-application consistency