Issue 86476 - Lack of usable tables in presentations.
Summary: Lack of usable tables in presentations.
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 68103
Alias: None
Product: Impress
Classification: Application
Component: formatting (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.2 RC1
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: christian.guenther
QA Contact: issues@graphics
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Reported: 2008-02-26 14:42 UTC by hgnue
Modified: 2008-02-27 12:30 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description hgnue 2008-02-26 14:42:12 UTC 
The converted tables look OK in a read-only sense.  But you can't really edit 
the table (as we need to do to update the contents over time).

Here are a list of the problems that make OpenOffice.org tables unusable:
* There is no way to change the color of the background of a cell.
* There is no way to resize a row or column to make room for more or less text.
* Cells do not automatically adjust in size as I add/delete text.
* I cannot add text to an empty cell.

I have an example I can send if this would help
Comment 1 christian.guenther 2008-02-26 16:12:26 UTC 
*** Issue 86477 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 2 christian.guenther 2008-02-26 16:19:12 UTC 
this is not a prio1 bug.
Comment 3 christian.guenther 2008-02-26 16:25:59 UTC 
Please have a look to the 2 announcements of the new table feature for impress.

http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/sneak_preview_of_the_upcomming

and 

http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/fearless_and_adventuresomely_testers_searched

In my mind this is what you are looking for.
Comment 4 hgnue 2008-02-26 17:04:43 UTC 
I am glad to see that in 2.4 the ability to create tables will be improved but 
this only fixes half of the problem.   When we convert tables that were created 
in MS Powerpoint we are unable to edit them when the presentations are 
converted to Open Office.  I also would like to up the priority since this is 
preventing our organization from moving to Open Office.  I also would like to 
keep it open until the newer version has been released.  At this time I believe 
it is in Beta/test format.
Comment 5 clippka 2008-02-27 12:29:52 UTC 
duplicate

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 68103 ***
Comment 6 clippka 2008-02-27 12:30:14 UTC 
closing