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In article <1992Aug17.063628.22820@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> perrocho@inf.ethz.ch (Louis Perrochon) writes:
>I would like to use the print merge command to put a list into a table.
>(I found out how to remove the section breaks, but don't know how to get rid of
>the paragraph-marks, wich separate the tables.)
>
>2. If my main document produces a tab-separated list of items, I could
>transform it to a table, but I then have to set the width of each column
>separately.
>
If you have an extended keyboard, both the section break or page
break and the paragraph marker can be removed by using the del key
(the "forward delete" key next to the "end" key and below the
"help" key). Position the cursor before the page break and
paragraph marker and press the key to delete them and the result is
a single table. If you do not have this key on your keyboard you
can select the paragraph mark and the break and use "cut" to delete
them, or you can use the keyboard command-option f to delete
forward (assuming you have that key combination set in your
commands dialog).

Assuming that you know ahead of time what column width you want the
table to have before you do the print merge, you could have the
table set up once; set the result of your print merge to be tab
delimited text; change the tab-delimited text to a table; copy from
this table into the previously set up table that has the correct
column widths. Make sure you have at least as many rows as will be
necessary; do not select the whole table before pasting, simply put
the cursor in the top left-hand cell and paste. Remove any unwanted
rows using the delete row command (which can be found in the
commands dialog, I have put all these table commands on my menus
for faster access).
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Dana E. Keil           Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
dana@are.Berkeley.EDU                 University of California, Berkeley