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<p class="Head1"><help:key-word value="table controls; properties" tag="kw65924_1" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>Special tips for table control fields</p>
<p class="Paragraph">You can configure a table control to display the desired records accordingly. In other words you can define field names for data display or for recording data as with a traditional database form.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">The following fields are possible in a table control: text, date, time and currency fields, numeric fields, masked field, check box and combo box. In the case of combined data/time fields, two columns are created automatically.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">The number of selected lines, if any are selected, is in parentheses after the total number of records.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">To insert columns into the table control, click in the header and bring up the context menu. The following commands can be run here:</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Calls a submenu that enables you to select a data field to adopt it in the table control fields.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Opens a submenu where you can select a data field to replace the data field selected in the table control.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Deletes the currently selected column.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Head3">Column...</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Opens the properties dialog of the selected column.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">If you click a column in design mode, the special properties dialog of this column also appears. The column properties correspond essentially to those in the <help:link Id="65962" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Control Properties</help:link>. The property for column width is also available here.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Hides the selected column.</help:help-text> Its properties remain the same.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Calls a submenu where you can select the columns to show again.</help:help-text> To show only one column, click the column name. You see only the first 16 hidden columns. If there are more hidden columns, choose the <span class="T1">More</span> command to call the <span class="T1">Show Columns</span> dialog.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Calls the <span class="T1">Show Columns</span> dialog.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-id value="SVX_LISTBOX_RID_SVX_DLG_SHOWGRIDCOLUMNS_1" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">In the <span class="T1">Display Columns</span> dialog you can select the columns to be shown. Hold down the (Shift) or (Ctrl) key to select multiple entries.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Click <span class="T1">All </span>if you want to show all columns.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph">Configure the table control using drag and drop: Open the data source browser and drag the desired fields out of the data source browser and on to the table header. A pre-configured column is then created.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">If you hold down the (Shift)(Ctrl) key combination for Drag and Drop of a table column to the column heads of the table control, the submenu is displayed. Here you can select what type should be given to the column to be inserted in the table control.</p>
