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December 29, 2024
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Remember Text In Heading Row of Table Style?

  • December 29, 2024
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How do I get Framemaker to remember the text I enter into a particular heading row of a particular table style? What I want to do is click insert table, select the table style of choice, and have the table pop in with certain information already populated to the cells. Anyone? 

    Correct answer Bob_Niland

    Simple Hack: for a small number of various Tables, the Table format could have a unique paragraph style/format for ¶CellHeadingn. That format would use /Numbering\ auto-number with a text string prefix that is the unique cell text. As soon as you create a new empty table of the selected style, it already has the associated cell heading(s).

    Template-like example tables, with table rows and columns, can be created on Reference Pages for easy stewardship and preview.

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    Bob_Niland
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    Bob_NilandCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    December 30, 2024

    Simple Hack: for a small number of various Tables, the Table format could have a unique paragraph style/format for ¶CellHeadingn. That format would use /Numbering\ auto-number with a text string prefix that is the unique cell text. As soon as you create a new empty table of the selected style, it already has the associated cell heading(s).

    Template-like example tables, with table rows and columns, can be created on Reference Pages for easy stewardship and preview.

    Community Expert
    December 29, 2024

    Before I say, that it can't be done 🙂 can you possibly more information to your question? What exactly is "certain information"? Where is the "certain information" to come from?

    If you have a number of lines with tabbed text, you can select the lines, click  Table -> Convert to table. That would immediately turn the text into a table, but the text will not come out of nowhere. Database publishing might be another scenario where you import text with markup, that will publish it as  - for instance - tables. But again, not text appearing out of nowhere.

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