[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 135250] There is no autofit to page option for tables or height adjustment option in table properties.

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Thu Jul 30 02:49:48 UTC 2020


https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135250

--- Comment #8 from Pavel Sayekat <pavelsayekat at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #2)
> Actually I believe there is already with a simple work flow...
> 
> 1.) Define your table, rows & columns. By default will be within current
> page margins. 
> 
> 2.) Zoom out to expose full page on screen. 
> 
> 3.) place focus on the table, and grab the bottom line of the new empty (or
> an existing) table. 
> 
> 4.) Drag bottom edge of table down to the height required. Just the bottom
> row of the table will increase in height.
> 
> 5.) Select the full table.
> 
> 6.) Use the Table -> Size -> 'Optimal Row Height' menu action, also on the
> Table toolbar's Optimize Size split button, to distribute the table rows
> into the new table height.
> 
> Should be apparent that you can perform this on a blank page to size table
> to margins. Also that to revert and start over, simply select the table and
> apply 'Minimize Row Height'.
> 
> @Justin, what do you think? Would it be possible to have a action to set
> Table size to page margins?
> 
> And it seems odd that none of the Row or table Height attributes are
> available via the 'Table Properties...' dialog. Would a tab for Rows, like
> Columns make sense?

As of now, I have managed to do it that way but I am talking about convenience
/ productivity, like 5-6 years ago, MS office had that feature, can't say about
now, it saves time and effort but anyone can disagree with that.

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