Writing text below a table at the bottom of an expand block

Paul Zhang
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June 30, 2022

How do I write text below a table that's at a bottom of an expand?

What I'd like to do is click on the right side of the table and have a cursor appear there and then press enter.annoying-confluence.PNG

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Jessica
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July 4, 2022

Hi, Paul

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

If you want to add the text below the table but add the content inside the expand yet, you can click on the last cell of your table, at the right side.
After that, with the right arrow of your keyboard, click it on it once, to select the table and twice will place the cursor at the end of the table (still on the right side).
When you get there, you can press enter, it will allow you to insert text below the table, but still inside the expand macro.

If your goal is to add text outside the expand macro, you would need to repeat this operation and click on the right arrow of your keyboard, but press until the cursor appears on the right side of the expand macro, instead of the table. It takes four right arrow clicks to get there.

Additionally, you can add an extra line/space when inside the expand macro, go back to the first line, add the table and automatically you will have the line to enter the text directly, without having to navigate with the arrow key +enter to insert the text below the table.

Hope that helps! 
Jessica

Philip Vassilev
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February 8, 2023

It helped me! Thank you both :)

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October 30, 2024

I've had the same problem for an hour now, and I don't understand your answer.
What do you mean by "with the right arrow of your keyboard, click on it once" ?? How can one click with the right arrow of the keyboard ?

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Each time you press on the right arrow, your cursor moves right but only one position at a time.

So, you put your cursor in the last cell of your table (on the last position) and then don't use your mouse but press the right arrow on your keyboard. You'll see that the cursor will be placed outside of your table - near the right side (right border) of the table but at the same level.

Then you press Enter and get a new line between the table bottom and the placeholder of the Expand macro.

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That's not what happens. If I press the right arrow on the last cell of my table, the cursor just goes back to the first cell of the last row (on the left).

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For me it works well. Try the same on another page, then try to clear browser cache - maybe it's kinda bug or smth.

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November 7, 2024

It's finicky, it worked on a previous page, but not working now either... 

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November 7, 2024

My workaround is to:

  1. Ctrl-A to select all
  2. Ctrl-X to cut
  3. Press enter a couple of times, then go back up to where you cut
  4. Ctrl-V to paste and then you have the space after to keep editing

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