Is it just me or does Scrivener table barely a lite version of what tables should be? I cannot delete whole rows or columns without it affecting other cells; I cannot select & drag to another cell without the result looking like nested cells inside the target cell. Weird.
What gives?
Tables are one of the features that is provided by Apple’s text toolkit (compare it with TextEdit and you’ll see it is essentially the same), and as such you can either take the huge leg-up and use them directly, or spend a lot of time coding your own from scratch. This is the case with much of the text system. Slowly but surely things are being improved, but you have to take into account the enormous amount of time it takes to produce alternatives, in comparison with how easy it is to give everyone a modicum of power using Apple’s stuff. Case in point, 2.0 will have better table control. It’s still not a complete re-write, but it’s a lot better than the basic toolkit.
Column and row addition and deletion is coming; so is the ability to drag the contents of a cell from one to another without creating a nested table (that actually is a feature, by the way, but not all word processors support nested tables).
AmberV, thanx for your input. LOL the seemingly more difficult feature of (migrating) nested tables is included, over the more used and useful drag&drop from one cell to another.
Yeah, go figure. Apple sometimes implements the weirdest things. 
I was talking about Scrivener.
I think Ioa means that Apple implemented the tables that Scrivener uses - Scrivener just uses the OS X text system and so is currently reliant on Apple’s implementation of tables in that system. In the future I really want to try to replace Apple’s code with some better, custom tables code, but it’s an incredibly massive job so won’t be possible for some time.
Thanks,
Keith
Here’s advice I’ve posted elsewhere in the forum: " I create tables in Nisus Writer Pro and link them as document or project references. I paste the NWP tables into Scrivener as place holders but don’t try to edit them there, and I replace them with the “real” tables after exporting to NWP."
For “NWP,” substitute the word processor where you will do your final editing.
Steve
Keith,
Thanx for clarifying that, dude. Now I get it.
Waiting for Godot …and 2.0.
Stevie,
Thanx for chiming in with that creative tip.