Table Tools¶

Table Tools provides a spreadsheet-style editor for project-owned tables. Tables are stored in the project's .typsastra/config.json and generated as ordinary Typst source when linked to a document.

Table Tools with a sample table, cell editor, and live preview

New Table dialog with built-in table layouts and data import

Create or select a table¶

Open Table Tools in the sidebar. Choose New to create an empty table, start from a built-in sample, or import comma- or tab-separated data. Select a table from the sidebar list to edit it. Tables can be searched and filtered by whether they are used by the current document, referenced elsewhere, or unused.

Edit the grid¶

Click a cell to edit its text. Use row and column controls to insert, remove, reorder, sort, or transpose data. Select a range to format cells, merge adjacent cells, or adjust borders. Undo and redo are available for table edits.

The inspector also configures headers, repeating header/footer rows, table style, stroke, banding, column and row tracks, gutter, cell alignment, emphasis, fill, text color, insets, rotation, and page-breaking behavior. Add a caption, label, and alternative description when the table is presented as a figure.

Link a table to Typst source¶

Place a //@table:<id> directive in a Typst document to link a table. Table Tools writes the generated table block at that anchor and keeps the block in sync with grid edits. If the linked block is edited in the document, use the table's linked-source action to read the changes back into the builder.

Tables can also be exported and imported losslessly as .typ source. Project table definitions remain in portable project metadata; no separate table file is created unless you explicitly export one.

Try the demo¶

Open docs/demo-project. It has a linked Basic table stored in project metadata and a //@table:basic_table anchor in main.typ. Change the first body cell. The generated Typst block and live preview update with the table.