Heya...

This time it's about a real table.:-) - or maybe it should be...:-(

Some of my real tables are very large - up to +150 A4 pages (music 
lists). All tables are with only 2 or 3 columns, but of course some with 
thousands of rows...

When I open such a huge table on my MacPro 4x2,66ghz/12gb RAM I notice 
that it can take up to 5-6 minutes before the table is ready for adding 
/ editing / removing rows.

I find this very odd to have to wait several minutes before I fx. can 
add only maybe 10-15 lines. So in the beginning I quietly and nicely set 
and wrote in every single letter, adding new rows when needed... Until I 
taought myself that this simply was too boring, so I began to experiment 
with a 'just 100 page table' - on a copy of course...

I had to enter some more albums to one of my artists, so I started with 
just copying the numbers and names in the folder - 'Select All' + 
'COM+C'. Put these names into the document at the very buttom just 
pasting beneith the table. The numberings and names are now just plain 
text beneith the last table entry but without any table settings...

Now I format the text as I want it to be by selecting the inserted 
text/lines, highlight the whole text and using my command COM+TC to 
create a table out of this text. Correct everything as it is in the 
table above...

Now I select this 'new table' with an empty table row at the top of this 
new table, put the blinking mark inside the last cell in the last table 
row in the main table, and using COM+V to insert the new table - et 
voila - the new table is correctly added to the buttom of the main 
table... Then check that the new part is as the rest of the main table. 
Afterwards I now delete the 'new table' beneith the main table. Save... 
Last thing I then do is to save the new finished main table into a PDF 
coument...

This process reduces the time adding new albums/lines to the main table 
more than ten times! - Instead of typing apprx. 10 albums an hour letter 
by letter I now can add them to a main table within about 15 minutes... 
- OK, presumed of course that the albums already have been transferred 
and named in a folder on the computer, - else it'll take quite a lot 
longer time.:-)

Inserting such a new table part can be done anywhere in the main table - 
just where you want it...

Cheers, Erik Richard

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