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Tables are a special part of documents and specific means have been developed to manage them. Step by step, the underlying models to edit and format tables have been improved or supplemented by new ones. These models led to a wide variety of table formats and produced "tabular legacies", making it difficult to edit, use, or modify tables in varying formats. It is even more time-consuming to convert them for various media or to unify or compare tabular information. Our approach to tackle these problems is to integrate different formats. To do so, we recognize the table structure, model the structure and the presentational form and combine both. This way, one can modify the structure, the topology, and the layout of tables simultaneously. Table manipulations may be very complex and hard to understand for the user. In addition, users are accustomed to WYSIWYG environments and want to be able to track their operations by optical control. Therefore, we have developed our WYSIWYG-GUI to work on tables, which we present here, discussing the advantages, limitations and further work to do.