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Shipped 2026-09-11 · Capture A results table is not decoration. It is the part of the note somebody else has to read, check and sometimes sign off on. Tables in Bower were fine for three columns of prose and awkward for anything that looked like data, which is most of what researchers put in them. This release is the table pass, and almost all of it came from the cohort telling us what broke.

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What’s new

  • Every column resizes, including the last one. Dragging the right-hand edge of a table used to add columns instead of resizing them, because the only draggable thing there was the add-column strip. It resizes now, and the add-column strips no longer pretend to be resize handles.
  • Banded rows. Toggle alternating row shading from the table options menu or with Cmd+Shift+K. Banding carries into a shared read-only view, so whoever you send the note to sees the same thing you do.
  • Delete several rows at once. Selecting five rows and choosing “Delete row” used to delete one, because opening the menu quietly replaced your selection with whichever row you were hovering. Delete, insert and “Clear row contents” now all act on the rows you actually selected.
  • Fit to width. In the table handle menu, beside duplicate and delete. It existed before and nothing rendered it, so a wide or extracted table could only be tamed by dragging every column by hand.
  • A scrollbar above the table, as well as below. A wide table scrolls inside its own box, and that scrollbar sat under the last row. On a long table it was off screen while you were reading the header, so the columns to the right were effectively unreachable. There is now a matching scrollbar along the top.
  • Wide tables stop compressing. Columns no longer squeeze below a readable width just because the table is wider than the editor.
  • Table colours survive Word. Cell and header shading now round-trips through .docx import and export instead of being dropped on the way.

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Finding the controls

The table menus were reported as hard to find, so the handles now stay visible while your cursor is anywhere in the table rather than appearing only on hover, and every trigger carries a tooltip.

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Notes

Banded rows are a screen and share-link feature. They are not carried into .docx or PDF export, so a banded table prints unbanded. Duplicate, sort and alignment still act on the row you are hovering rather than on a multi-row selection. That is the next piece of this work, not an oversight.