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Feature Request: Subdivision of the table components. Like spliting a column into two. #2340

Open PranavBhattarai opened 1 year ago

PranavBhattarai commented 1 year ago

Currently can create:

Name Age Sex
Bond 38 Male

But we cannot further split the column if we want to.

Like a Name column split into two, First Name and Surname. It would be really handy if we could split a column by two at least.

Sisyfos3 commented 1 year ago

@PranavBhattarai , you can add a column instead of splitting an existing one. HTH, Sisyfos3

PranavBhattarai commented 1 year ago

When we start to play in Tables, it becomes almost impossible to not see the need for this. It is more about categorizing the table in a more orderly fashion.

add a column instead of splitting an existing one.

Yeah, that is the basic least approach that is available right now.

Let me give you a more complex example: image

It makes more sense to give more control while designing the table, isn't it? Currently, we can't unbold the table headings, colorize the texts inside the table, italicize any words inside the table, etc. The table we have is limited control.

It would be great if we could open up some control that goes into designing the table.

Sisyfos3 commented 1 year ago

@PranavBhattarai , I agree on formatting the cell contents (bold/unbold, cell color, italic etc), but splitting a column or cell can't be done even in Excel, which seems to be the world standard (I'm not particularly fond of it), unless cells/column are joined to begin with. I'm not a programmer so I have no clue as to how much coding would be neccesary to make splitting cells/columns possible.