![]() Built for long and complex documents, Mellel allows you to create documents with style, sophistication, and consistency. That’s it.Mellel, the most powerful word-processor for the Mac, comes to the iPad. I haven’t specified any styles modifications for the table, I just added it and filled in text and then tried to do basic formatting. Hopefully this is just user error, but honestly, I'm not messing with any esoteric settings. Just emailed it to Martin, who was kind enough to volunteer to take a peek. I try to make all row heights 30 point, they all go to 30 point, I try to make them 9 point, ⅔ of them go to 9 point and the rest only scale down to about 13 point. Now it’s changing again and I have no idea why it stopped and then started. Vertical alignment stopped changing at all for any row, just wouldn’t do anything. Over the weekend, I would select the entire table and make the padding and row height and vertical alignment the same for the entire table. I have one document I've done a test table on to explore this functionality. What the developers have done in a relatively short time is remarkable and I look forward to watching this program progress through the years.īut the Tables behavior has been bizarre for me. I'm not trying to bang on Mellel, I'm very impressed with this program. In my opinion, all rows should be the same height if I’ve selected the entire table and am modifying row height globally, but they are not. About a third of the rows reduced a little and then stopped reducing as the rest of the rows continued. I selected the entire table and went to the alignment and spacing palette, changed lines to points and began reducing row height for the entire table. I tried to change the row heights for the entire table. ![]() Some stay middle aligned, some bottom aligned. I make the padding value the same for the entire table, and I make the alignment selection the same for the entire table, and yet not every cell is aligned the same. That said, this table is behaving very oddly. Re my alignment issue, thanks, I'd missed that drop down selection for vertical alignment. Re styles, hopefully they’ll be coming, but honestly, I'd rather have sort than styles. To me, giving me a table without the ability to sort it is like giving me text without the ability to change the font. Re tables, I would argue that the ability to sort a table is a fundamental function that it has to have. Always a matter of balancing resources versus desired outcomes. I used to design ERP software for aerospace companies. I understand the constraints of development. I have no idea why there is any difference between cells, but there is. ![]() So when I resize the rows to make them shorter, the disparity jumps out and the table looks horrible. My issue is that I have some text that is aligned in the middle of the cell (vertically), and some where the text is aligned at the bottom of the cell. I know how to left/center/right align text within a cell. I’m not talking about horizontal alignment, I'm talking about vertical alignment. Re the alignment issue, I apologize if I wasn’t clear. Here’s hoping this functionality is strengthened. Almost seems like their approach to tables was “oh yeah, we’ll let you create one”, like an afterthought. Given Mellel’s focus on Styles, I'm surprised they haven’t applied this to tables. Is this something that has been requested in future releases? I don’t want to bring it up in the other forum if it’s already been discussed. How can you include tables and not include the ability to sort them? Even Word does that. ![]() Wow, you can’t sort tables? That is a VERY surprising limitation in an application that purports to be industrial grade for academic work. ![]()
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