PhD writer here, new to Mellel, couple of questions

zarairani · Post by **zarairani** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 5:45 pm

Is it possible to have auto-titles in tables?

How do I multi select bits of text?

I really think Mellel is ace, keep up the good work!

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Zara

Reiner · Post by **Reiner** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:06 pm

The same sad answer to both of your questions is: No. It is not possible.

zarairani · Post by **zarairani** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 10:46 am

Reiner wrote:The same sad answer to both of your questions is: No. It is not possible.

That's a shame. The auto-titles in tables would be really useful for me, especially as I am often using two images side by side, and need to put the images in a two cell table (anyway that's the way I had to do it on word 2004).

I've tried using two columns just for the image sections, then I can have captions that can be auto-titles. But it's tricky- three columns even more so!

Hope these two features appear in 3.0, or sooner...

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Zara

Normand · Post by **Normand** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 5:30 pm

zarairani wrote:
Reiner wrote:The same sad answer to both of your questions is: No. It is not possible.
That's a shame. The auto-titles in tables would be really useful for me, especially as I am often using two images side by side, and need to put the images in a two cell table (anyway that's the way I had to do it on word 2004).

I've tried using two columns just for the image sections, then I can have captions that can be auto-titles. But it's tricky- three columns even more so!

Hope these two features appear in 3.0, or sooner...
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Zara

MaY I bring to your attention that there is a feature request about that issue at:
http://forum.redlers.com/viewtopic.php? ... t=beaudoin

Normand Beaudoin

jolinwarren · Post by **jolinwarren** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 8:47 am

zarairani wrote:The auto-titles in tables would be really useful for me, especially as I am often using two images side by side, and need to put the images in a two cell table (anyway that's the way I had to do it on word 2004).

Why not put the images in a table, and use an auto-title immediately before or after the table. For instance, you could have the auto-title with a table on the next line containing two images. With appropriate "Keep with next:" settings in the auto-title's paragraph style, the auto-title and images will never be separated. Like so:

If you put the auto-title after the table, just set the "Keep with next:" settings for the paragraph style used for the line that the table is in.

Hope this makes sense. Let me know if not.

zarairani · Post by **zarairani** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 11:21 am

jolinwarren wrote:
zarairani wrote:The auto-titles in tables would be really useful for me, especially as I am often using two images side by side, and need to put the images in a two cell table (anyway that's the way I had to do it on word 2004).
Why not put the images in a table, and use an auto-title immediately before or after the table. For instance, you could have the auto-title with a table on the next line containing two images. With appropriate "Keep with next:" settings in the auto-title's paragraph style, the auto-title and images will never be separated. Like so:

If you put the auto-title after the table, just set the "Keep with next:" settings for the paragraph style used for the line that the table is in.

Hope this makes sense. Let me know if not.

That's fine but I haven't found an easy solution if you want to have a caption below each of those pictures.

jolinwarren · Post by **jolinwarren** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 11:55 am

zarairani wrote:That's fine but I haven't found an easy solution if you want to have a caption below each of those pictures.

Ahhh, I see. Yes that poses more of a problem. You might be able to do this by inserting a section break directly after the table and then setting the following section to two columns. I don't know if the spacing would work out, but it might.