Can I change the font for individual cells in a table

When I select individual cells or rows in a table and change things like the font colour or the actual font, it simply changes the whole table.

Is there a way to change these properties for individual groups of cells?

Try to select individual paragraphs (or words or letters) inside a cell.

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Can’t reproduce from the terse description. Please edit your question to add OS name, LO version and save format. Tell if you created the table based on so-called table style. Describe precisely your procedure (how you select, how you change attributes: direct formatting or style modification, …). Tell also how you generally format your documents (direct formatting versus styles).

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Hi,

I am sorry for not giving more information. You know how it is when you are up against a deadline and you have a problem with software. I’m also pretty sure it is simply something I am doing wrong.

Here is more information and reproduction steps.

This is Libre Writer V7.2.0.4 (x64) on Windows 10 Build 19044.

  1. Create a new Writer document.
  2. Create new table 4 x 4 with Style set to None. Click Insert.
  3. Hover cursor over left of table to select top row.
  4. Set a font and font-size (I chose Tahoma 14).
  5. Holding down the left mouse button, drag to select all remaining 12 cells, excluding the header row formatted in the previous step.
  6. Choose a different font-size.

Mmm… now that works. Opening the original document again also seems to have fixed the problem. I must have got the UI confused somehow.

Please feel free to close this bug.

As a piece of general feedback, if there is one single thing that has made me repeatedly consider paying Microsoft for Office it is the difficulty I have using tables in Writer. It has got a lot better and I know and appreciate how hard you guys work on it but it still seems to be incredibly difficult to draw even moderately complex tables, especially handling different borders. Maybe the code itself is good and solid and it just needs an in-depth tutorial for dummies like me.

I am sorry for wasting your time on the bug.

Kind wishes - Patrick

You seem to have a M$ Word-like approach to document formatting. You could spare yourself a lot of problems by learning how to use styles. In the example above, I"d customise Table Heading for the top row and Table Contents for the rest of the table. Once this is done, all tables will be formatted the same without the need to repeat manually the modification.

That said, there is a lot of room for improving table handling because there is no real table style.

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