Okay, so. I have a list of songs I’m working with that I periodically add to, and am entering data about them. I sort them around a lot by various fields. Having just switched to LibreOffice, the issue I’m running into is that there does not seem to be a way to set the top row as a header row, and as such the names for each field just get jumbled in with the data. Is there a way to set header rows, or otherwise not have the top row sorted in with the rest? I would just highlight all rows except for the top and sort them from there, but the document is quite literally over 30 pages long, so that’s pretty unreasonable.
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Just make first N heading rows to repeat across pages - use table properties (Text flow tab) for that.
This doesn’t work. And why do I have to make heading rows repeat? I just want to sort the table while keeping the heading at the top.
What doesn’t work? It still works as expected in 7.1.0.3 for me.
And why do I have to make heading rows repeat?
Because that’s how you tell Writer “these N first lines are header, not the data”. Writer’s table sort does not sort headers when it knows those are header rows.