# Table Mode UI/UX Difficulties

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/table-mode-ui-ux-difficulties/5795>\
**Category:** Bugs & Issues\
**Created:** [February 2, 2024, 6:43pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/table-mode-ui-ux-difficulties/5795 "2024-02-02T18:43:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![billyjackson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/billyjackson/32/6345_2.png) [@billyjackson](https://community.fibery.io/u/billyjackson)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 6:43pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/table-mode-ui-ux-difficulties/5795/1 "2024-02-02T18:43:58Z")

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Loving the new grid-\>table mode. However, there are a few issues that are affecting UX and quality of life I wanted to bring attention to, in order:

1. **Editing Text/Numbers**  
When single-clicking on a text/number cell (that is: selecting the cell itself, NOT double clicking your cursor into it) and then typing a number, the typed number appends onto the existing numbers. This is not my expected behavior - nor is it the norm in any other spreadsheet software I am familiar with (notably: excel, google sheets, etc.) - nor is this the behavior when pasting text onto a cell. I would expect that typing onto a **single-clicked** cell would completely overwrite the existing content, while typing into a **double-clicked** cell (with placed cursor) would add characters wherever the cursor is placed. Personally, I find this tremendously unintuitive and frustrating, particularly with numbers: I almost never want to change a value in a cell by multiplying-by-ten-and-adding-whatever-key-i-just-typed. I also cannot think of very many cases where this is how people interact with number data.
2. **Deselecting large selections**  
It is currently very easy to select a number of rows (great!). Unfortunately, it is not so easy to deselect them. Based on general UI/UX expectations from excel, google sheets, Mac Finder, Windows Explorer, etc, I would expect that I am able to click into an empty area to deselect all that is selected. Unfortunately, the most expedient way currently seems to be to click the “select all” header checkbox twice.
3. **Right-Click actions on all selections**  
Currently, if selecting a right-click action amongst a large selection set, this action only applies to a single action. This runs counter to my intuitive expectation, which is that this action will apply to all selected entities.

The first issue on this list is - for me - by far the most frustrating. The others seem like small quality of life tweaks.

And (because it bears repeating) I adore fibery. It’s the best product in the space by a landslide. The recent updates are amazing. Keep up the incredible work

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**Author:** ![mdubakov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/mdubakov/32/10_2.png) [@mdubakov](https://community.fibery.io/u/mdubakov)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2024, 10:41am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/table-mode-ui-ux-difficulties/5795/2 "2024-02-09T10:41:23Z")

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We will fix 1 asap. 2 (soon), and 3 will take more time, I’d say few months till we get to batch updates

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**Author:** ![billyjackson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/billyjackson/32/6345_2.png) [@billyjackson](https://community.fibery.io/u/billyjackson)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2024, 6:31pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/table-mode-ui-ux-difficulties/5795/3 "2024-02-09T18:31:50Z")

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Amazing, thank you Michael!  
3 feels much more like a nice-to-have than a need-to-have.  
Always grateful for you and your teams attention to detail and quality of development

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**Author:** ![mdubakov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/mdubakov/32/10_2.png) [@mdubakov](https://community.fibery.io/u/mdubakov)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2024, 1:03pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/table-mode-ui-ux-difficulties/5795/4 "2024-02-15T13:03:21Z")

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First problem was addressed in today’s release

> [@Feb 15, 2024 / Expand pinned Fields (experimental), some fixed bugs and improvements](https://community.fibery.io/t/feb-15-2024-expand-pinned-fields-experimental-some-fixed-bugs-and-improvements/5854):
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> While we are working on some huge fancy things and less huge fancy things, this release is mostly about improvements and bug fixes. closed_umbrella Expand pinned Fields (experimental) [expand-pinned-fields] Tiny pinned Fields only work well for people who visit certain kinds of cards often — others have to hover over each unit to see what Field it is. Now every person can expand pinned Fields to see the Field names. The Fields will start expanded by default and we will remember if you colla…
