My mother wants to make something like the image.
Currently, she has to use a proprietary word processor, with no good way to control the size and margins. Hopefully there is a better way to achieve the same with less ceremony.
The features we need:
- Create tables with images/texts on each cell (images should be embedded inside each cell)
- Merge some cells together to make a good-looking table
- Multi-line texts in some cells, with formattings like boldface
- CJK language support
Then, good flexibility to control size of cells would be nice - the more intuitive, the better. Both locally installed program or web-based app is fine.
Are there software for this purpose? Thanks a lot in advance!
You can do all of those using Google Sheets or Excel. For open source program… not sure if LibreOffice Calc can insert image in to cell, since I never use it for that, but I’m guessing it can.
Just tried it out (never had to put an image in a table before). It works.
- Image in cell ✔
- Image resize in cell ✔
- Merge split cells ✔
- Multiline in cell ✔
- Bold/Italics/Underline/Strikethrough ✔
- Full Unicode ✔
- I used
KCharSelectto insert unicode characters, but am assuming you have a specific keyboard to do the correct stuff for you.
- I used
- Easily change cell size with merge and centred cells nearby ✔
- I just typed multiline text and the cell resized the way I expected. I could also just drag the borders to resize.
- Intuitivity: This was the first time I was doing these specific things in LibreOffice Writer and I didn’t have to read a manual. I just looked at the icons on the bar on the top and tried right-click menus. The whole suite of above tests took <5min.
Thanks for trying it out. Just for clarification this is for LibreOffice Writer right? I’m assuming if Writer can do it, Calc probably can too.
Yes, I used Writer instead because OP’s image looked like it would be better suited for the table being embedded in a page layout.
Dunno… excel? Or libreoffice calc? My customer does complex forms in it, because they don’t use word. Bonus that you can also do calculations in the cells, and embed windows controls (like the date/ calendar control), and add scripting, if you’re so inclined.
Hmm, how do you embed images in excel?
Insert->picture
Or just drag from explorer into the spreadsheet.
I just searched, did not know you can embed an image inside a cell. That said, my mom wants to input multiline texts in some cells…
You can put multi line text in cells, or you can merge cells for the image so it covers multiple rows
Or you can actually embed another excel sheet in a cell, with its own formats, data and images.
Alt+Enter on PC and Opt+Enter on Mac puts a line break or carriage return in a cell rather than Enter which just skips to the next cell.
Isn’t it Shift+Enter on PC?
Enter moves selection down a cell.
Shift+enter moves it up.
Tab+enter moves it left.
Shift+tab+enter moves it right.
Ctrl+enter confirms the entry without changing the cell selection.You can change the behaviour of the enter key to put in a line break instead of moving down a cell in options.
