How to add heading row to an existing table in Writer

[mykoza]

Hi,

I’m using LibreOffice 7.1.3.2 on Windows 10.

Is it possible to add heading row to an existing table that doesn’t have one?
I can’t find any information about this in newest Writer Guide. I found older Guide (for 4.0), but changing paragraph style for the first row nor applying table style, doesn’t seem to work.

Additional bug I found during testing is that “Repeat heading” option is quite buggy. In a table that was created with a heading row, it doesn’t have any effect on a table unless you manually delete rows on the next page. After that I can’t check the option again - it unchecks after adding a new row to the table.

Cheers and thanks in advance.

[Hrbrgr]

Mark the top row.
Choose Table>Insert>Rows Above from the menu.


I hope that can help.

[mykoza]

It wasn’t exactly what I meant, but after restarting it works mostly as I would expect. Still, thank you for your answer.

My only gripe right now is with the “Repeat heading” setting in “Table Properties”. When I uncheck it, repeated heading (on the next page) doesn’t disappear on its own. I have to manually delete it, which in turn deletes the original heading (on first page), I then have to undo once, and finally it looks how it’s supposed to.

It’s probably my fault somehow, but I think that’s not how it should work.

Cheers

[EarnestAl]

Today, I downloaded and installed LO 7.1.3.2 to test. I can reproduce the table problem in that version, there might have been a reason it was available for only 10 days.
To fix install:

• latest release, 7.1.5.2

• or stable 7.0.6

Cheers, Al

[mykoza]

Darn, you are right. I updated LibreOffice recently, but it had to be on different PC, so it didn’t occur to me. Thanks for your time.