I’m running into an issue with LO 26 on a Mac that I did not seem to have earlier.
I have created a bunch of tables with drawing info, and formatted the column widths and row heights to fit my page layout and some other tweaks. Lately when I update the information in the table and for example add or remove a row under table reference options, all the lay-outing dissapears and the table looks messy again.
I tried checking/unchecking the ‘Import Excel Formatting’ option but that doesn’t change anything.
I also tried the option to first create and format the table in LO (as mentioned in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRkAwyXDmIc), in the video the table remains the same after inserting the info, but with me it doesn’t unfortunately.
Yes the tables have changed in 26 and not for the better. The SU team is aware of some of the problems. I also have the table resizing columns when updating from the spread sheet. I dont use excel. It used to add rows if you added content in the spread sheet and not resize the columns automatically. Now you have to edit the range in the dialog in Layout and then it blows up the formatting. I have little success using the Spreadsheet formatting. This feature is useful but needs work.
Hey @colin , I was wondering if this is indeed a LO26 issue, or if it’s a local proablem that I could fix somehow. It takes a lot of time redoing already formatted tables…
I asked about this, and it seems we do have a fix for the issue. I can’t yet say when an update will be released, there other issues being worked on before that can be sent out. Me or someone who works on LayOut will come back to say when the update is online.
Hi Colin, thank you for getting back that quick. Naturally, I hope the update will be soon - I was happy to increase my work within LO with the latest improvements, but this issue unfortunately pretty much eclipses and neutralises all of those.
