Issue 29986 - Inserting text in front of a table at the top of a page is not intuitive
Summary: Inserting text in front of a table at the top of a page is not intuitive
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1.1
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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Keywords: oooqa
: 40478 89290 99993 106311 108561 (view as issue list)
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Reported: 2004-06-08 17:35 UTC by prewett
Modified: 2013-02-07 22:35 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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May be HELP is a better guide than Google ;-) (146.53 KB, application/pdf)
2009-12-11 18:56 UTC, Rainer Bielefeld 		no flags Details
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Description prewett 2004-06-08 17:35:32 UTC 
1.  Open a new text document
2.  Insert a table
3.  Now try to insert some text above the table.  How do you do it?

It turns out that if you position the cursor in the upper left cell and hit
enter it will insert a line.  It also turns out that this is exactly how Office
XP does it.  However, it would be nice if hitting up or left when in the upper
left cell would position the cursor just to the left of table (outside of the
table, but immediately to the left of the table).  Similarly, clicking in the
margin to the upper left of the table should do the same thing.

The problem with the current method is that there is no visible indication of
how to do it.  If the cursor can go to the left a bit then I expect I can start
typing and have it insert text.  (Likewise, hitting delete should remove the
table, which is hard to do currently)
Comment 1 michael.ruess 2004-06-09 08:29:11 UTC 
reassigned to bh.
Comment 2 lohmaier 2004-06-15 22:56:32 UTC 
The way to insert new paragraphs before/after a table or section ist to use
<alt>+<return>
Comment 3 michael.ruess 2004-10-21 07:26:54 UTC 
Insert text above a table by pressing "Enter" at the very first position (in the
upper left cell) of the table.
Comment 4 michael.ruess 2008-05-12 15:41:33 UTC 
*** Issue 89290 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 5 michael.ruess 2009-03-09 16:06:25 UTC 
*** Issue 40478 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 6 michael.ruess 2009-03-09 16:06:56 UTC 
*** Issue 99993 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 7 eric.savary 2009-10-27 06:11:46 UTC 
*** Issue 106311 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 8 viraptor 2009-12-11 18:06:04 UTC 
Pinging the issue, it's silly and still not fixed in any way. Users have no way
to discover alt+enter by themselves and google doesn't help with any results.
For a standard user that mean the functionality is not there.

Same problem occurs when the table is at the beginning of a new page.
Comment 9 Rainer Bielefeld 2009-12-11 18:56:43 UTC 
Created attachment 66616 [details]
May be HELP is a better guide than Google ;-)
Comment 10 eric.savary 2010-01-21 20:58:31 UTC 
*** Issue 108561 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 11 bettina.haberer 2010-05-21 14:58:11 UTC 
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on
my owner to the owner "requirements".