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Fields attached to a table

In some cases, you will have a page with more then one table, and each will have some extra pieces of data that belong to it - i.e., fields.
In order to convert the data correctly from such a document, you can attach a field to a table. The conversion will be the same as converting the field with Every Line setting, but it will only be added to the assigned table, not to all the tables on the page.

As can be seen in the example above, the user wanted the two tables to be converted into the same sheet, but to know which data came from which table. The type of costs for each table can be found above the table - so a field was marked on each type. The first field - Hospital - was attached to the first table, and the second - Pathology - was attached to the second table.
By using the same name for both tables, they were combined to the same sheet; but for on each row, the data of the Type column is taken from the correct field.

Attaching fields to a table has some additional effects:

• When you move the table by dragging it, you can move the attached fields as well if you press the <shift> key will dragging.
• When you copy the table, the fields are copied with it; when you paste the copied table, the fields will be pasted also, and are automatically attached to the new table. This helps you when you have two or more similar tables, each of which have the same attached fields.
• If the table is set to be found by its header, the attached fields will only be visible if the table is found, and will be moved with the table if it is in a different location in another page.