Using Tables in Web Page Composer is really no FUN

Hello,
I was really surprised to find nothing in the forum about tables in the advanced paragraph editor in WPC. For me working with the tool is very annoying.
- You can set only once the form of your table, It´s not posible to add new columns or raws to an existing table.
- You can not set a fixed size for a column. The size depends on the content´s size and moves dynamically with it.
- There are a lot of bugs: You can not choose the color white or transparent for the background of the table´s cells. It results in black
What solution did you find to go along with these problems?
How can you expand an existing table in WPC?
Any idea how long to wait til SAP fixes this problems?
Thanks in advance for your recommendations.
Thomas
Edited by: Thomas Krynicki on Feb 19, 2008 10:59 PM
Edited by: Thomas Krynicki on Feb 19, 2008 11:00 PM

Yes,
in an OSS-Call I have described all problem issues in terms of Advanced Paragraph and Tables in WPC.
However, after evaluating the issues they respondend to me that because of the complexity of the problems SAP has planned to solve these issues in SPS18.
That means for this year we cannot expect any improvement in WPC
Greets
Thomas

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