Tables
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You insert a Table under the menu Table › Insert › Table. You will be asked to determine the number of Columns and the number of Rows. Though you can always add or remove columns later on, it’s best to choose the right number of columns right from the start so as to avoid extra work. How wide or how narrow you would like each individual column to be you can determine using the mouse pointer. As for the number of lines, it really doesn’t matter, because adding or removing a line (clicking on the green line of the automatic pop-up menu as in illustration 22) doesn’t affect the overall formatting of your table.
Illustration 22: As long as your cursor remains inside the table, this little pop-up menu will keep you company. Clicking on the green bar inserts a new line
Other decisions which you can take are if you want the table to be “splittable” in case of a page break. Whereas it is advisable not to split very small tables containing only a few lines, you would in case of a table with a large number of lines want to Allow table to split across pages and columns so that it can flow over onto the following page. In this case you would also want the title line(s) to be repeated on each page by ticking the box next to Repeat Heading.
If you happen to insert a table you don’t need and want to delete it, just right click on it and choose the menu Table › Delete › Table.
| Branch | Great importance | Lesser Importance | No Deployment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All branches | 83,8 | 15,2 | 1 | |
| Education and Research | 91,6 | 7,5 | 0,9 | |
| Software & Consulting | 91 | 8 | 1 | |
| Telecommunications | 89,6 | 9,1 | 1,3 | |
| Media & Marketing | 83,3 | 16,7 | 0 | |
| Social & Welfare Departments | 75 | 25 | 0 | |
| Administration | 70,8 | 26,1 | 3,1 | |
| Banking & Insurance | 69,7 | 27,3 | 3 | |
| Industry | 67 | 31,9 | 1,1 |
Table 3. Source: http://www.heise.de/open/artikel/Open-Source-ist-in-den-Unternehmen-angekommen-224504.html (Extract of survey carried out by the magazine Heise on the deployment of open source software based on 1312 valid records from 3500 companies asked to participate in the year 2009 – answers in percent)
In order to insert a caption at the bottom of the table, simply right click it and choose Caption. This Caption will automatically be provided with an incremental number, making it easy to insert cross-references to it from other places in your text.
You can also create tables without visible borders, for instance for your curriculum vitae (date in the left column, rest of text in the right column) or for the purpose of excerpting.
If you want several adjacent columns to all be of the same width, mark them with the mouse, right click on the greyed out surface and choose Column › Space equally.
Illustration 23: Source: See table 3
