Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 110936
Impossible to copy table from Writer to Impress without changing design
Last modified: 2010-04-17 14:08:17 UTC
When copying table fro Writer to Impress, one of default designs is automatically applied. But I want to copy table "as is", e.g., with custom background and foreground colors I've set in Writer. All this settings are lost on copying. Also, it's not easy task to copy simple "black on white" table from Writer to Impress
Created attachment 68960 [details] example with custom background of one cell
I dislike the new Table style behaviour feature in DRAW and IMPRESS, but it's "as intended". You simply have to create a WRITER OLE object in the Impress sheet, there you can insert the table with WRITER style and formatting.
1. There are some problems with OLE: it's needed to tune cropping and it drives me nuts 2. I really don't understand why I "have to". Who decided it's the best way? Why not to add "blank" design alongside with others? Why not to import custom settings of cells?
I believe that OLE object solution would be quite ok, if it would work correctly. The current behaviour makes OLE objects completely unusable, but unfortunately all issues concerning this problem (Issue 72879, Issue 81143 and others) are handled with very low priority. @annulen: May be you will be interested in additional information from specification draft in a.m. URL?
what specification?
<http://specs.openoffice.org/impress/tables_in_impress.odt> (pls. see "URL" in Issue Header)
I've read it and see that Impress tables have almost the same purpose and set of available features as Writer ones (but both differ from Calc tables). 1. Why it's impossible to use whole table code (implementation of objects, UI, default design patterns) from Writer without OLE? 2. Table contents could be transfered into Impress, e.g., in form of HTML table, containing custom formatting for each cell
@annulen: This is not the correct place for such discussion. May be you want to join UX team, discuss with developers, open a new specification draft discussion in the OOo Wiki or something similar ...