I've posted before about editing LaTeX files, but here is a nice tool I just noticed today. I've been using
Texlipse on a daily basis to write my thesis. Texlipse is a feature/plugin for
Eclipse that allows for editing and quick compiling of LaTeX files in Eclipse, (also with the use of PDFPerspective from
JPedal, view compiled PDF files). Anyways, today I was trying to enter data in a table, this is not a difficult task, but in LaTeX, it tends to be tedious. Today however, I remembered a view I had noticed when I first started using Texlipse, the "LaTeX Table View". This view allows for the easy inputing of data and then creation of a table within LaTeX. The only missing item is border formatting, so you have to manually define the justification (left, right, center) and border lines in the actual LaTeX file. Oh well, but life is easier for now with this tool.

Update based on fussel73's comment.
I guess I should have not eluded to that idea that I've integrated JPedal's PDFViewer with TeXlipse, what I do is use the JPedal PDFViewer perspective as my base perspective and then open all my LaTeX files within that perspective. All this allows is that every time I open a PDF product from pdflatex, I don't have to switch my perspective. I've actually posted the suggestion to the TeXlipse developers of trying to integrate the PDFViewer as part of the viewing options with in TeXlipse, but overall it really is not that big of an deal. The only issue with my approach is that I have to close the opened PDF file before recompiling my document or the new resulting new PDF will not be available until I do so. fussel73, I hope that clears things up a bit. If you find a way of better integrating the two, please post and share.
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Hi Nick,
could you post a little more on how you integrated JPedal's PDFViewer with TeXlipse?
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