Shifting table contents globally ‘left’ and ‘right’ into previous and next rows, is not a usual table task. If a table column is not aligned correctly with another, you can copy-and-paste the wrong content one position to the left or right. But that won’t work with ‘row wrap’.
Fortunately, it can be scripted. Here are shiftup.jsx and shiftdown.jsx. They move the *text content* of a table one cell left or right – unless there is something in the first (or last) cell, of course!
//DESCRIPTION:Shift table cells 'up'
// A Jongware Script 21-May-2015
currTable = app.selection[0];
if (currTable.hasOwnProperty('baseline'))
currTable= app.selection[0].parent;
while (currTable instanceof Cell || currTable instanceof Row || currTable instanceof Column)
currTable = currTable.parent;
if (currTable instanceof Table)
{
if (currTable.cells[0].texts[0] &&
currTable.cells[0].texts[0].length > 0)
{
alert ("no room to shift up!");
} else
{
for (i=1; i<currTable.cells.length; i++)
currTable.cells[i].texts[0].move (LocationOptions.AT_BEGINNING, currTable.cells[i-1]);
}
} else
{
alert ("please make sure the cursor is inside a table!");
}
and
//DESCRIPTION:Shift table cells 'down'
// A Jongware Script 21-May-2015
currTable = app.selection[0];
if (currTable.hasOwnProperty('baseline'))
currTable= app.selection[0].parent;
while (currTable instanceof Cell || currTable instanceof Row || currTable instanceof Column)
currTable = currTable.parent;
if (currTable instanceof Table)
{
if (currTable.cells[-1].texts[0] &&
currTable.cells[-1].texts[0].length > 0)
{
alert ("no room to shift down!");
} else
{
for (i=currTable.cells.length-2; i>=0; i--)
currTable.cells[i].texts[0].move (LocationOptions.AT_BEGINNING, currTable.cells[i+1]);
}
} else
{
alert ("please make sure the cursor is inside a table!");
}
.
