5.7. Within tables: delete rows, working with column blocks

Having already obtained a symbol table form the interpretation the equations, a subsequent modification of the equations may result in new symbols or other symbols may become redundant, which leads to changes in the symbol table.

Additionally occurring new symbols are indicated in the symbol table by green colored rows. For these, the columns Unit and Meaning may be edited.

Some symbols may have become redundant, because they are no longer used; the corresponding symbol rows are shifted to the end of the table and indicated by yellow color. Here, the user must decide whether these rows can be deleted; if so, these can be deleted by clicking the toolbar icon delete-row.

At present, Column blocks cannot be defined within tables; corresponding blocks of data can therefore not be exported to, e.g., Excel. It is however possible by “copy and paste” to insert such a column block in an UR table which has been selected in Excel and copied to the Windows clipboard. This requires the following steps:

  • open the upper-left cell of the UR table by double-clicking into it;

  • insert the block into this cell using “paste” in the mouse context menu; In this moment, this cell holds the whole block.

  • pressing the enter button once extends this block over the area of cells.