Oxygen XML Forum

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

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

Thanks - hadn't spotted that one!

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

Hi Dan,

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

Regards,
Radu

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