I have a few questions related to tables in the Pages app (I'm using version 8.1 with MacOS 10.14.6 Mojave):
1) If I've created a table, but want to add say 20 more rows; is there a way to do this in one go instead of right-clicking the last row, selecting "Add row below" and repeating this 20 times?
2) how can I reorder columns? (for instance, I want column G to go between columns A and B).
I thought it was just a matter of clicking once on the table (to show the table's properties such as column name and row number), then click & hold the "G" column while dragging it to where you want it. At least I think that's how I did it before, but I'm apparently missing something since I can't make it work now.
3) I've created several separate tables. They're all identical (same number of rows etc.) but have different text contents.
Is there a way I can create a new table which is a combination of them all?
For instance, I've created the following 3 tables:
.... and I want to combine all of them into one single, long table like this:
Never mind -I think I figured that question out!
It was just a matter of selecting the cells from the table I wanted to copy from, like this (clicking on a cell, then dragging the "selection edge" to whatever I wanted to copy), followed by pressing CMD-C:
... and pasting it into the new table, but only if that table already had enough empty cells (or ones that could be overwritten) to accomodate the ones I just copied, and then selected the cells I wanted to paste them into first.
Once that was done I was just a matter of changing the colours etc.
If this is the way to do it (perhaps there's an easier way?) it brings me back to question 1: how can I quickly just add any number of new rows in one go?
1) If I've created a table, but want to add say 20 more rows; is there a way to do this in one go instead of right-clicking the last row, selecting "Add row below" and repeating this 20 times?
2) how can I reorder columns? (for instance, I want column G to go between columns A and B).
I thought it was just a matter of clicking once on the table (to show the table's properties such as column name and row number), then click & hold the "G" column while dragging it to where you want it. At least I think that's how I did it before, but I'm apparently missing something since I can't make it work now.
3) I've created several separate tables. They're all identical (same number of rows etc.) but have different text contents.
Is there a way I can create a new table which is a combination of them all?
For instance, I've created the following 3 tables:
.... and I want to combine all of them into one single, long table like this:
Never mind -I think I figured that question out!
It was just a matter of selecting the cells from the table I wanted to copy from, like this (clicking on a cell, then dragging the "selection edge" to whatever I wanted to copy), followed by pressing CMD-C:
... and pasting it into the new table, but only if that table already had enough empty cells (or ones that could be overwritten) to accomodate the ones I just copied, and then selected the cells I wanted to paste them into first.
Once that was done I was just a matter of changing the colours etc.
If this is the way to do it (perhaps there's an easier way?) it brings me back to question 1: how can I quickly just add any number of new rows in one go?
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