Zim - A Desktop Wiki
Basic Table Operations
Insertion of a table
Insert directly within textarea
|Header 1|Header 2|Header 3| |Data 1a|Data 2a|Data 3a| |Data 1b|Data 2b|Data 2b| Text after table. Table has to end with a blank line.
Press CTRL+R or open menu item View->reload, so that the table can be displayed as widget.
Use the insert-table button
or press the menu item Insert -> Table
After this step you can define the table titles with the following Options:
Title: Column title
Alignment: Alignment of the cell (left, center, right)
Automatic Wrapping: Column Cells with long text should be automatic wrapped to new lines.
Add row / Change table layout
Press the right button on the area of the table - but not on the header - and select in the popup menu some item.
Enter text in a cell
- Click one time on a cell, wait one second.
- Click again on the cell.
- Now it opens a textfield where you can fill the cell.
- Press <ENTER> and the text will be fixed.
or Press <ESC> and the inserted text will be ignored.
Sorting
Click one time on the column title, which you want to sort.