Insert Table Next To Existing Table

[Starker]

I need a table next to and in-line with another table. The image should explain all. How do I do this? I can not position the cursor outside and to the right of any table.

[EarnestAl]

Why would you want it as a separate table? Don’t you want to do the calculation for Total weight?

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HYPERBOREA_exampleEA.odt (16.4 KB)

[Lupp]

@Starker
Attach your example file. It’s a lot more helpful than an image.
An additional little image (in your case the arrow) drawn/pasted into the example document may then also help.

[fpy]

Create two independent tables side by side in writer?

@mikekaganski gave THE solution in the 2-column section context. However, think about your problem because a section appears in the normal text flow. If you’re too close to page end, your lines for the first “table” will spill over in the second column (unless you really inserted a table object). You can do it differently, kind of considering your tables are “annotations”, “comments” or side-text for the main flow. In the paragraph where you want these side tables to appear, insert two frames …