Hi, 

I wanted to copy a table created in word to wiki. When I copied, the whole format changed, and also, it doesnt allow merge tables which is such a disappointment.

Is there a way to further format a table? For example:

• Center text within a column?
• Highlight or add color to certain rows?
• Change the size of the font in certain cells?

If not, can this be added as an enhancement request? 

Thanks!

Hi,

As far as I know, this feature is not currently available in Confluence. However, I have found a similar feature request. Please add yourself as a watcher, vote for this feature and add your own comments to this feature request. For further details on how we include new features and improvements, you might want to read this page

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JSashi

Hi

How can i sort a table contents by column 1, column 2, column 3...... by using Rich Text method.

Regards,

Mouttou

Hi,

Is there any way to resize columns of a table instead of just the whole table?

Thank you!

Cosmina

Hi

could you please advise me on how to change the table colour?

thanks

Sajeev

Hi,

     When I combine the MySQL and Confluence3.1, I meet the trouble.

In macro browser, I can't use to insert info, gallery,tasklist,widget,

table and other macros.

     When I insert macro, the alert is "There has been an error loading

the macro browser.Please try again or see your system administrator".

     How should I do?

Thank you.

                                              Monica

Is it possible to cut and paste table columns as you can do with rows? I've not been able to determine a way, but sure would be helpful. :)

Confluence is not drawing borders around cells in table as shown in the documentation.  Any ideas what the problem could be?

I'd like to use a form to allow users to edit a wiki table. Ideally, users would be presented with the extant table rows, a blank set of form entries or pop-ups (for row fields that take one of a set of fixed values), and a button to submit the entered data as a row to the table.

How can I do this?

Is there a way to change an existing table cell <td> into table header cell <th>?

Is there any way to make a column in the table of a fixed width?

him im trying to populate this table 

{checklist:name=The pets names|parent=Animals|label=pets}
{checklist-label:Mammal?|label=mammal}
{checklist-metadata:Comments}
{checklist-input:Common pet names|cols=20}
{checklist}

having no such luck 

is there away of doing this? im trying to add it to my wiki page

We need better table support across the board.  Basically, the table in confluence should at least support the features that basic html gives you.  I should be able to specify a background color, cell width, wrapping etc.

How do I copy a table from wiki syntax to Confluence? Seems like I have to press enter after each line to trigger the editor parsing (save/preview does not work as expected), but that doesn't give me the table I want (new line inserted between each row in the table). I'm trying to copy some rather large tables from docuwiki and JIRA.

Is it possible to link multiple tables within Conflence so that when an update is made to the data in one table, that update would be reflected in all of the tables?

Is there a way to center a table on page width? I am able to center test on cells but I am not able to center the pable on page width.

Is there way that I can use this in template?

Hi,

We're using the table plugin with Confluence 4.0, but our biggest problem is that we can't edit our exisiting tables. We have to go through and re-write every table by hand. Do you have a solution how we can just go through and edit the table header?

Thanks for the info.

Hi,

I am trying to populate a table with the values coming from a form. Is that possible in Confluence? Is there a plugin for that.

Thanks,

Bogdan

Hi there,

how do I convert a table into normal text? Any ideas? Currently I'm pasting the table into a text editor, copy it again from there, and paste it into confluence. 

Thanks for your help!

Is there a way to convert an already-entered table back into wiki markup, so you can make changes that are apparently not possible in the WYSIWYG editor? Working with the editor is about as painful a way to do tables as I have seen anywhere.

How to remove table borders in confluence 4?

How can i align the data in the dynamic table content ?

Is there a way to hide and show the contents of a column in a table? I have a column that contains comments and only want to see the comments if the user chooses to do so. Otherwise, the size of this column affects the rest of the table display.

A useful hack can be to add an additional row at the end of the table, and add dummy urls in each cell, of varying length.  It seems that confluence refuses to 'fold' these, so they give you some control over the column width.  changing their colour means you can then hide them if required.  Found this out by accident when copying and pasting a table from an excel sheet containing an url... 

hi...

    am having one requirement... can we give link to an entire row of a tabe... how do we give..

Thank you for your answers

I suggest you beef up this topic (or create a sub-topic) that explains and demonstrates some specific techniques that won't be intuitive or easy to figure out. Over in the 4.0 feedback thread there was some thrashing about this, and in our own internal test plans for 4.x migration (from 3.5.x) we also had to scratch our heads and figure out some new ways of achieving certain rendered table outputs.  Well, here ya go, feel free to plunder for your content as you see fit.

Atlassian moderators/writers: Please don't remove this comment until I remove this notice. If my company eventually migrates to 4.x (still uncertain), I will want to copy this content back into our own "Confluence tips" space. Because that space is currently 3.5.x there is no way for me to source this information there, and our 4.1 test environment is volatile. Basically, I'm using this comment as temporary source code, lol.

Balanced tables versus unbalanced tables

A balanced table is the standard rectangular grid with symetrical rows and columns. This is the type of table that the 4.x editor will make by default, especially when you paste a group of cells into another cell.

Tables within tables

To create tables within tables, the basic pattern is to use the Table button (or its corresponding shortcut Ctrl-Shift-I) inside the exact cell where you want to create the sub-table. For example, assuming the following top-level table...

...If you want to place a sub-table in cell 2, select the contents of cell 2 and then use the Table button (or press Ctrl-Shift-I) and specify the size of the sub-table. Then fill in the contents of the sub-table like so:

If you then wanted to add a similar sub-table in cell 1, you must likewise manually add a new table into cell 1 by selecting cell 1, inserting the new table, and then either manually filling in the columns of the new sub-table or else copy and paste the original sub-table by placing your cursor inside the top-left row of the newly-inserted sub-table (but not selecting the entire cell) and then pasting the copied sub-table.

Important: To copy the entire contents of one table (or sub-table) into another, the two (sub)tables must be exactly the same number of rows and columns, and you must not select the entire cell or table of the target table when you do your paste. You can easily undo (Ctrl-Z) if you mess up the paste and get an unexpected result. To get a successful paste, just place your cursor inside the top left cell of the target table.

A hack to control the width of columns in tables

Atlassian will hopefully someday add the ability to specify exact column widths in tables. In the meantime, you can use a hack to force column widths:

1. Add a row at the bottom of the table.
2. In each cell of the bottom row, add a continuous string of characters with no spaces. In my example below, I just drummed my right fingers on the four "home" keys of my keyboard.
3. Adjust the length of each string to "force" the column width you want for each column. Confluence will not auto-wrap unbroken strings like this, so you can widen or narrow a column by adding more or fewer characters to each string.
4. To hide the strings when you're finished, select each one and then use the Colour button to make the text of the string the same color as the background of the cell.

Here's an example, with only the string at the bottom of column C colored white to make it invisible.

If you don't want the "empty" row at the bottom of the table, a variation of this technique is to put a line break (Shift-Enter) in each cell of the table's bottom row and put the string after the line break. In this example, all such strings were added to cells 9-12 and then colored white to hide them.