I have a lot of documents where some sort of descriptive text is written to one column. I can make that column be Text-typed, which allows me to write multiple lines of text by using Shift-enter. However, this is tiresome and error-prone to remember to write each new line with shift-enter.
Please support making a large text area, or multiline text box, in detail layouts. Pressing enter on those fields should not cause the field to be accepted, but instead should just add a new line automatically.
Just to make you aware that Coda has this in place:
Just click in the text column and at the right bottom corner you will be able to expand to a full text block, where with “Enter” you will go to a new line
Thanks for your reply but I wouldn’t call that a solution - you have to click the cell ‘twice’ before the expander even appears, then you have to click the expander too - so you’re talking 3 clicks just to get to it. It’s not easy to use.
I would prefer it if I could click once - maybe if there was a dedicated long form text column, I could just click in the cell and then type without having to press ctrl and enter to make a new line.
I am finding myself wanting a “paragraph style” text box very often. The single line /text input does not work for many use cases where I want to enter a block of text (and refer to it), and it not be in a table.
It would also be important for this text to be rich text, as it would go in client reports etc (as well as be reference-able and act as an interactive control as the current text box does).
I know this is old but I still need this ALL THE TIME. Even some text strings that can go in one line are cut off by the fixed (small) size of the text control.
I love the Canvas column, but I still have all kinds of unnecessary tables floating around my docs (and have to jump through hoops in formulas) because it is a column and not just a control.
Alternative: make the text in code blocks accessible through formulas, since the blocks can hold plain text?