How to un-join table cells?

[DanTemple]

Once you have joined some cells, either row or column, there seems to be no straightforward way of un-joining them again, short of editing the XML.

Am I missing something in some menu, or does that function not exist?

best regards, Dan

[Radu]

Hi Dan,

If you are editing a vocabulary for which Oxygen provides bundled table editing support, you can right click inside a cell, choose one of the Table->Split cell..... The DITA toolbar also contains a drop down Table Join/Split with the same actions.

Regards,
Radu

[DanTemple]

Thanks - hadn't spotted that one!

[DanTemple]

Although - some feedback here regarding usability - this is still laborious when you have many cells to join.

If there were just a "join" button which joined all the currently selected cells, that would be better.

I have an earlier post also regarding select / copy / paste of cell ranges, this is the same kind of thing.

regards, Dan

[Radu]

Hi Dan,

Agreed, we already have an issue opened for improving this. We will update this forum thread when we do.

Regards,
Radu

[mihaela]

Hi,

Just to update this thread, Oxygen 18 contains improvements regarding table operations, including a new Join operation that allows you to join all the selected cells in a single step.

Other table-related improvements are:
- you can split a cell on multiple rows and columns
- when editing inside tables, the table-related actions are promoted in the contextual menu
- multiple selection of rows is now supported so you can easily copy/paste content from one table to another
- various CALS and HTML table layout problems are reported using a special table validation engine

Best Regards,
Mihaela