I was about to suggest something like this.
I also find it looks better to declare the first and fourth columns
left aligned, the second and third decimal aligned. Then I would make
the Header fields multicolumns each and center aligned.
You turn the Table Toolbar on, put the cursor into a column and then use
the Table Toolbar to do that/
Finally center the whole table.
But then beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
el
On 2025-01-31 19:24, Paul Rubin wrote:
[...]
>> On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 7:26 PM A-Imam Al-Sammak>>
<imam.sam...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Eberhard I have a table that has one of the columns entries
>> that has a long sentence. With default settings the table expands
>> outside the page margin. I want to be able to fix column width
>> such that the entry vacancy spans over vertically. An example
>> table is attached.
[...]
> Put the cursor in the right hand column (any row), right-click and
> select "Settings...". In the "Table Settings" tab, change the
> "Width:" select control to "Custom", pick your preferred method of
> expressing the width in the right-hand select control, and fill in
> the desired width in the middle box. I've attached a modified
> version in which I set the width of the right column somewhat
> arbitrarily.
[...]
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AI tools use
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There are several AI tools:
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ChatGPT
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Copilot
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DeepSeek is a Chinese product and it is the latest to enter this market.
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Although all of tehm can do normal search,
DeepSeek is excellent for scientific work as it is the only one that you can
attach a circuit (JPEG,
so far) which will it will read and understand.
It will solve it as well mostly correct,
for example I gave it my book example 1.8 and solved it for me (with little
difference,
I think due use of exact values,
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