When the insert row icon is used on the Table toolbar, it inserts a row below the current row. When using the Table > Insert > Row menu sequence, you have a choice of adding a new row either before or after the current row, with the default being before the current row. This takes several mouse clicks or modified keystrokes. It would be a nice enhancement if the toolbar icons could be modified to accept a modifier (like the shift or control key) to insert a row above the current row; how this might be indicated on the toolbar is an interesting challenge for an icon designer, but would, I suspect, be quickly committed to muscle memory by heavy uses of tables. Of course, the same enhancements would be helpful on the insert column icon as well. I'm using LibreOffice Writer Version: 4.4.4.0.0+ Build ID: 5c6f7f0920a91c974e9639f2c751582c8f140b2b running on 64 bit Ubuntu 14.04.02 LTS
Reasonable enhancement request but pushing to UX-advise so they can decide what to do with it. Note: For enhancement requests it really depends on volunteers finding the bug interesting enough. Just because it is confirmed as valid does not mean that it will ever be implemented :) Just depends on the individual preferences of the developers working on the project.
We're replacing our use of the 'ux-advise' component with a keyword: Component -> LibreOffice Add Keyword: needsUXEval [NinjaEdit]
Going over the old tickets I'd say this one has been solved. The contextual "table" toolbar contains of add column below/above and row left/right. The same is true for the main menu. That perfectly WORKSFORME.
Original Poster: I agree; the contextual menu solution works for me as well.