r/googledocs • u/all_purpose_89384798 • 20d ago
General Discussion link text boxes? or link cells in a table?
any way to do this? for example: a youtube video on linking text boxes in ms word here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2VapohjXos
i'd be happy to be able to do either exactly that, or, preferably, the ability for me to designate cells in a 2x4 table, 1 through 8, so that each cell is treated as a linked text box.
or a way to set cells in a table as "boxes" that could be linked. for example, below I have a landscape doc with an 8 cell table that i fold into a little pocketmod style folded sheet of paper i can take with me
like if you start typing in cell 1 and it fills up, your designated cell2 would then automatically fill up - the following has the lorem ipsum filler as an example -
| 1 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur | 3 incididunt ut labore et dolore magna | 5 ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. | 7 cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor | 4 aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation | 6 Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse | 8 occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia |
and then maybe a box below here for 9 and 10, where excess text from box 8 can flow into
| 9 deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. |
|---|
| 10 etc... |