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Submitted by David_H on 2015/01/20 04:57

Is there a secret handshake needed to size tables :D? I've encountered similar issues with other programs but am usually able to fill them with dashes to manipulate them. I've tried that, I've tried resizing columns using the handles and that only seems to make them unusable. If I manage to drag one one column all the others immediately become so tiny I can't even grab them.

All I want to do is create a blank table and make each column the size I want it - that's the important part, every column needs to be a different size. They will all start empty (other than the very top row) so I can type info into them.

Also, no matter what I do the table inserts at the very top of the pane, which is frustrating. I can even type text into the first few lines of the HTML pane and then try to enter the table below it, and instead the table appears at the very top and throws the text down to the bottom.

Help!

Thanks!

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After playing with this some more as well as after reading this thread unless someone tells me otherwise I'm convinced tables are just completely broken. If I grab the sizing bars at the sides I can only make the table so large (horizontally) and then it stops. If I grab the sizing bars and try to make them larger vertically they instead affect the horizontal size.

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[I just remembered - HTML pane is dependant on IE - what version have you - I'm still with IE9 which could explain why somethings work for me and not for you]

I rarely do tables but once lately - tried again now:

That the table is only created at the start is definitely a Bug.

Resizing is jumpy here but worked reasonably well (I didnt have the problem of vertical resizing instead of horizontal - ).

Re table width:- when you make the table initially there is a percentage given for width, I'm wondering if that is small does it stop you from resizing beyond a certain size (which would be a bug as well). The table I made was @80% width and I was able to resize it to full screen width.

(Just in case a workaround is of help in the immediate/short term:) FWIW you can drag the table to a new location.

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Win.7 64bit ~ IE9 ~ IQ 0.9.26Pre-Rel37

Thanks. I'm running IE version 11. Definitely unable to resize to screen width. Not even close.

Strange, on a second PC with the same version of IE tables work beautifully, better than any other software I've used. I can manipulate every part of them however I want. Now I just need to figure out if there is a reason I can attribute to them not working well on the laptop.

Perhaps you can give us the specs for both, screen resolution and dpi namely

1920 x 1200 on the laptop.

3840 x 2160 on the desktop where it works perfectly (a true 3840 x 2160, no upscaling).

Text set to 100% on both. (96 DPI?)

One thing I will try is on the laptop I will change the window size, I've sometimes found issues like this are related to window size.

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1920 x 1200 on the laptop.[/quote]

Humm, I'm skeptical for the laptop... model number ? Windows version ? A screenshot of a full IQ window if possible

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1920 x 1200 on the laptop.[/quote]

Humm, I'm skeptical for the laptop... model number ? Windows version ? A screenshot of a full IQ window if possible

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Skeptical about what :p :D? I can assure you of the resolution, I've been running 1920 x 1200 laptops since they came out, they are harder to find these days though. This is a MacBook Pro 15" retina.

And the other is a real Windows pc ?

Perhaps it has to do with Windows emulation...

Anything is possible but I doubt it. Using VMWare Fusion, for practical purposes it is a windows machine, the software does not know any different. At least to my knowledge, I can honestly say I've never ran a single program that won't run right, if it works on a regular windows machine it works on a vmware. Any issues I've encountered always ended up being standard issues that were independent of it being a virtual machine.