Improvements to the table in Wrike descriptions
Hi team,
I have a few suggestions for the "Insert table" feature in Wrike descriptions (in any item; task, project, folder, CITs):
[Suggestion] Allow for bullet points, numbered lists, and checkboxes to appear in table cells
- We currently cannot add bullet points, numbered lists, and checkboxes inside a cell
- Helps us organize findings that we record in a cell
[Suggestion] Allow us to select cells vertically without highlighting everything else
- For example, if I want to highlight only cells 2-4 (horizontal) to format those in a specific way, it will also highlight the adjacent cells in the next row; I tried to highlight cells "abc"+"def"+"ghi" only but it grabbed everything and the same would happen if I tried to highlight the row over
[Bug] Trying to paste content in a cell or format values with text color/highlight will cause the screen to shoot up to the top of the table (have to scroll all the way back down)
- This is the case with longer lists, it's frustrating to keep having to scroll back down
- This happens when you try to paste information into a cell that you had to scroll down to
- This also happens when you try to apply text color or highlight (does not happen when you use bold/italics/underline/strikethrough)
- I can't upload a screen recording, but I'll paste image of before and after applying formatting (it is more apparent with a longer table)
[Bug] Copy/pasting information over text in a cell doesn't replace it, but prefixes it instead
- As with any other text function in desktop tools (i.e. Word, Teams, Excel, etc.) or online (i.e. web browser bar, webpage text boxes, etc.) when you highlight a text and hit CTRL+V to overwrite the highlighted text with text that was copied, it will replace the highlighted text with what you want to paste
- Again, can't show a screen recording here, so I will show two screenshots to illustrate this; note that I am going to paste the text "test" over the cell text of "abc"
I'm sure there are more suggestions, but these come to mind. They would help us better utilize the table feature in Wrike descriptions (per the two suggestions), as well as help make the feature more user-friendly and intuitive (per the two bugs).
To be honest, I barely use the table format in descriptions because of it's limited capabilities. All of these suggestions would move them to a much more usable tool.
The ability to have bullet points in the table view would be amazing!
I am really hoping a rework of the description table is on the road map. I am trying to shift my team form creating Word docs and uploading to a task to just using the task description, but I always get pushback because the formatting options are so limited. People love using the table in word, but the Wrike description table is so limiting they don't want to use it.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Russell Sprague Ashley Fischer Steve Mruskovic!
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Hi folks, thanks for this feedback, we've seen similar threads like this pretty popular one (please consider upvoting it as well).
Lisa Community Team at Wrike Wrike Product Manager Become a Wrike expert with Wrike Discover
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Thanks Lisa, it didn't come up as I was trying to create this post. I've upvoted it!
That's great, Anna Giacobbe! Your post is quite detailed. Thanks for sharing. 😊
Basudha Sakshyarika Community Team at Wrike Wrike Product Manager Become a Wrike expert with Wrike Discover
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Having worked in QA many moons ago, I try to provide as many details as possible, Basudha Sakshyarika :p thanks!