How do I move table Rows...?

[Lothar Krepke]

 

Howdy,

 

I am new to BlueGriffon and use version 1.7.2 with Windows 7...

 

We have a 2 Column, 7 Row table, that has to be modified every month. In effect, we want to move the top row to the bottom of the table, and move all the other rows up one position.

 

So, suppose that the table now looks like this:

 

01  A

02  B

03  C

04  D

05  E

06  F

07  G

 

 

Next month, we want to modify the table so that it would look like this:

 

 

 

02  B

03  C

04  D

05  E

06  F

07  G

01  A

 

 

Seems easy huh...?

 

Well, it should be, but I can't seem to figure out how to do it efficiently.

 

I can easily delete the top row, and can insert a new row at the bottom. But I don't want to have to type in the text in the new cells at the bottom. I have tried various cut & paste approaches, but whenever I try to paste in the cells, or the contents of the cells, the entire formatting of the table changes.

 

Can you point me to the proper way to make this very simple modification?

 

Many thanks,

 

Lothar

 

 

[Greg Chapman]

Hi Lothar,

On 08 Sep 13 18:49 Lothar Krepke <lothar...@gmail.com> said:
>
> We have a 2 Column, 7 Row table, that has to be modified every
> month. In effect, we want to move the top row to the bottom of the
> table, and move all the other rows up one position.

....

> Can you point me to the proper way to make this very simple
> modification?

I know of no (easy?) way to do this in WYSIWYG mode.

My approach would be...

1. Drag across the top row to select it. (A blue outline appears round
each cell)
2. Hit CTRL-C (to copy the row and content to the clipboard).
3. Click immediately below the table.
(That assumes that the table is not the last item on the page. If it
is, before you start add some more content to follow the table!
Placing the cursor outside of any block, but not within the next one
is one of the major WYSIWYG editing issues in BlueGriffon.)
4. Hit CTRL-V (to paste the copied row as a new one row table).
5. Switch to SOURCE viw and locate the following code fragment that
link the two tables and delete it:

</tbody>
</table>
<table style="width: 100%" border="1">
<tbody>

Note: the attributes to the <table> tag may differ on your table.

(Idea for a feature request: Have the Markup Cleaner delete this code
fragment where adjacent <table> tags have identical attributes.)


Greg Chapman
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