Table formatting disrupted

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You might like to check this thread from a short while ago:

Scrivener completely breaks tables after reopening project (formatting randomly lost)

Hi everyone, I’ve been running into a serious problem with tables since the latest Scrivener update. I’ve created a large table manually — quite a long one (around 395 rows). Up until now, everything worked fine. It was a bit slow when typing new rows, but the layout and styles were always preserved when reopening the project. Since the update, however, things have become a nightmare. Each time I reopen the project, the table’s structure is completely broken. The formatting gets rearranged se…

It doesn’t give a solution, but you could check your set-up against the questions raised there.

I think, in your position, I would use Numbers/Excel and import the sheet into Research and open it in whichever from there when I wanted to view it/add data, or alternatively add a link to the file in Project notes which would open appropriately on clicking.

I have never used native tables in Scrivener, but on a quick trial of a 4 row 3 column table, I found problems/issues that mean Apple’s TextKit tables code is really borked (on my machine: M2Pro Mac Mini, MacOS 15.7.3, Scrivener 3.5.1). I’ll post that separately.

Mark