Title: Enabling TableTools
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Enabling TableTools

 *  Resolved [mpinkerton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpinkerton/)
 * (@mpinkerton)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enabling-tabletools/)
 * In your documentation for Features of the DataTables JavaScript Library it’s 
   mentioned that I can additionally add the TableTools library to DataTables by
   enabling the “DataTables+TableTools” library in the “Plugin Options”. Then you
   can enable the “Use TableTools” checkbox on the “Edit table” screen for each 
   table individually.
    I don’t see where you enable the DataTables+TableTools library
   in the “Plugin Options of TablePress. Therefore, I don’t see the “Use TableTools”
   checkbox on the “Edit table” screen. My goal is to enable this so that I can 
   enable my users to print the table. Please advise. Thanks!
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tablepress/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tablepress/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enabling-tabletools/#post-3293390)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your question.
 * Unfortunately, the documentation is wrong here. (I had just copied that part 
   from the old WP-Table Reloaded docs and apparantly forgot to correct this part.)
   
   The TableTools add-on for DataTables is now no longer directly included in TablePress,
   and therefore the described checkboxes are not there. Instead, TableTools can
   be added to TablePress via a “TablePress Extension”, which is basically a plugin
   for TablePress. To use that, just install and activate [https://github.com/downloads/TobiasBg/TablePress-Extensions/tablepress-datatables-tabletools.zip](https://github.com/downloads/TobiasBg/TablePress-Extensions/tablepress-datatables-tabletools.zip)
   just like a regular WordPress plugin. After that, just change the table’s Shortcode
   from something like
 *     ```
       [table id=123 /]
       ```
   
 * to
 *     ```
       [table id=123 datatables_tabletools=true /]
       ```
   
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [mpinkerton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpinkerton/)
 * (@mpinkerton)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enabling-tabletools/#post-3293404)
 * Thanks! Got it working.
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enabling-tabletools/#post-3293405)
 * Hi,
 * very cool! 🙂 Thanks for the confirmation!
 * Best wishes,
    Tobias

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## Tags

 * [datatables](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/datatables/)
 * [print](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/print/)
 * [tabletools](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/tabletools/)

 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enabling-tabletools/#post-3293405)
 * Status: resolved