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June 16th, 2006 at 4:00am —
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Last week, the TableTools Firefox extension was brand new and I looked at it as a patch. I was wrong. This week, I will do a full review of the extension in lieu of what happened last week.
The author, Mingyi Lui, has done a great job with this extension. Install the extension and find a site that has a table to test drive this puppy. Mingyi has a test table in the demo area, but I prefer to use a real world table. Let's hit the Fortune 500 list.
The TableTools Firefox extension use the following keyboard shortcuts to accomplish certain tasks dealing with tables.
| Keyboard Shortcut | Task |
|---|---|
| CTRL-ALT-left mouse click | Sorts the table column you clicked. |
| CTRL-SHIFT-left mouse click | Performs an "AutoFilter", similar to Excel |
| CTRL-Z-left mouse click | Copy the table as left-justified tab-delimited text (for copying over to Excel) |
| CTRL-Q-left mouse click | Same as above, only the text is not left-justified. |
| CTRL-E-left mouse click | Copy the HTML of the table content. |
As you can see, the TableTools Firefox extension has quite a lot of flexibility and I'm sure that this extension will become helpful to data miners, accountants, and possibly bloggers for sorting their profit columns.
The extension is pretty solid and I haven't had any problems with it since installation. It performs as expected and is definitely better than a patch. :-)
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