Great screencast !
Indeed this feature will be a must, thanks a lot for bringing it on Impress & Draw.
BTW, is the Table design feature going to be available in Writer too ? Indeed this is really a great way to quickly design a table, and IMHO Writer should also have the ability to use this features.

Congrats for your hard work.

Posted by FACORAT Fabrice on December 04, 2007 at 11:55 AM CET #

Great feature !

I hope that this is a step forward to styles for Tables in Writer !
See : http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=11121

Posted by Florent on December 04, 2007 at 03:21 PM CET #

Hello!

Thank you for your work. Great screencast! I do agree with FACORAT Fabrice. Also I would like to know it it will be available for Writer too. I hope we can added new styles easily.

KAMI

Posted by KAMI on December 04, 2007 at 04:27 PM CET #

Ugh. No soup for me.

Fedora 8; Icedtea 1.7.0 (validates though the link provided, and works for other sites)

All I get is a gray box.

Posted by Joe on December 04, 2007 at 06:59 PM CET #

The "Table Design" feature is absolutely fabulous. And it was high time for it to be implemented.

Though, I did not like the default colours during the presentation. There are so many better combinations. I'll submit therefore a new issue describing alternative styles and color-schemes, see http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=84246 for some examples.

Posted by discoleo on December 04, 2007 at 10:36 PM CET #

Thank you all for the feedback

@Joe
Sorry, I try to create a movie version of it for people who are not able to watch it on screencast-o-matic

@discoleo
Thanks for the issue and the designs. Yes the designs shown in the video are developer made ones and are not the ones supposed to be in the final release. So any input is welcome. I will update your issue on what information is needed for a complete table design.

Posted by Christian Lippka on December 04, 2007 at 11:01 PM CET #

In case you have problems watching the video, you will find a flash version of the video here

http://www.lippka.com/OOo/tables/table_preview.htm

Posted by Christian Lippka on December 04, 2007 at 11:16 PM CET #

I think it works great. I aagree with otehr posters that this functionality be incorporated into Writer. I like that tables are inside a movable "box" that can be dragged to differnt positions and resized quickly. Great work!!!

I also realized that in Impress you get all this choices on the right side that are appropiate to the design of the presentation. It would be wonderful to have something similar in Writer (and maybe Calc). Lotus Symphony is doing a great job in that regard

Posted by Ervan on December 04, 2007 at 11:56 PM CET #

I am very pleased to see this great feature being added in the near future. Thanks for the hard work and all the improvments.

Posted by Larry on December 22, 2007 at 06:54 PM CET #

Very impressive. I particularly appreciate the ability to have automatic banding. I currently use macros to do this in Writer.

Posted by Andrew Pitonyak on December 25, 2007 at 03:56 PM CET #

Great work! My first efforts at programing were in the early 60's in "machine language" with 2000 words of available memory. Now retired, I miss the fun of designing spreadsheets and presentations and would have loved to have these capabilities.

Born 40 years too soon,
Ed

Posted by Ed Wolski on December 31, 2007 at 01:40 AM CET #