Episode 19: Table Talk – Part 2 (VIDEO)

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1. Carol Bracewell

   December 24th, 2009 • 1:58 pm • Link

   I’m puzzled by the choice of language in the Alternating Row Strokes Dialog Box. In the popup for Alternating Pattern, I can choose “Every Third Row” which I thought would mean every third row would be underlined, so in effect my rows would appear to be grouped in threes.

   Instead what I find is that it applies a stroke to all three rows, followed by whatever I choose for the “Next” three rows.

   Since I cannot get the results that match the phrasing, I think the popups are phrased wrong… it should be “Every Three Rows” not “Every Third Row”. Even that doesn’t quite seem to accurately describe what is going on.

   Maybe I’m missing something. I’d like to tell my tables to have a row stroke under Every Third Row, not groups of three rows all with strokes. I think Edward Tufte would agree that this choice should be easy, so we don’t make checkerboard tables trapped behind bars.

   Any insight is helpful. Thanks for your podcast.

   Carol

2. Four hands furniture

   February 27th, 2010 • 6:37 am • Link

   I had a great time reading this. Thank you for sharing the video also.