• Industries
  • Products
  • Buy
  • Services & Support
  • Communities
  • Discussion Groups
    21 Kudos
    sam_m

    Make Tables similar to Excel

    Status: Accepted
    by *Expert Elite* on ‎01-08-2013 08:46 AM

    We require Excel to use Inventor so why don't Inventor's tables work the same as Excels?

    e.g. (off the top of my head)

    • F2 to edit the cell  (personally REALLY miss not having that)
    • when editing the cell with F2 have Ctrl+left/right to skip words
    • Enter to finish the cell and alt+enter for a new line within the cell
    • merge cells?  (not sure the need, but would help with copy/paste betwen Iv and Excel)
    • borders like Excel

    also, while talking about tables - line-breaks in titles, is that in yet?

    Status: Accepted
    Accepted idea [US14718]. Thanks!
    Comments
    by Mentor ‎01-08-2013 12:49 PM - edited ‎01-08-2013 12:51 PM

    My hope is that this is implemented both on the user side and the api side.  Right now the api for a table is worse than terrible. 

     

    Hopefully tables will support features like strikethrough, bold, underline, etc for text within them.

    by dmiller on ‎02-13-2013 07:48 PM

    Text wrapping in headers would be nice.

    by Employee dan.szymanski on ‎03-01-2013 11:58 AM
    Status changed to: Under Review
    This project [US14718] is under review by the development team.
    by Employee dan.szymanski on ‎03-14-2013 08:14 AM
    Status changed to: Accepted
    Accepted idea [US14718]. Thanks!
    by rscherich on ‎04-05-2013 12:33 PM

    Would be nice to add colums w/o having to make a header or even merge cells together.

    basically anything you can do in excel you should be able to do in the tables.

    Announcements
    IdeaStation Guidelines
    Review guidelines and best practices
    before posting a new idea.