On 2/5/14 2:47 PM, BillW50 wrote:
"VanguardLH" wrote in message
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BillW50 wrote:

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Why are people creating tables on a word processor? Why not use a
spreadsheet?

It depends on what your goal is with the table.

I think people tend to lose sight of the purpose of a spreadsheet. It's
for the purpose manipulating numbers, doing math operations of some
type. It's not for manipulating text.

In your preferred spreadsheet, can you insert a graphic/image into a
cell? In a Libre Office spreadsheet, you can insert a graphic/image,
but it's free floating, it's not inserted into the cell itself. Which
you might want if you were using LO Writer to create a table for a
basic HTML page.

In Writer and Word, the image is inserted into the table cell. Change
the size, shape, location of the table and/or cell, and the image moves
with it. Doing the same in an LO spreadsheet, the image stays put. You
have to manually reposition that image.

I'm sure there are other differences, but this one comes to mind. And
doing something like this that doesn't require a math component is
simply extra steps you have to do to get that table into the text
document, plus the extra time to edit that table info.




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Ken

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