diff --git a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiTabular.cpp b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiTabular.cpp
index 87f351b611..8fe7961474 100644
--- a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiTabular.cpp
+++ b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiTabular.cpp
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ void GuiTabular::setTableAlignment(string & param_str) const
 docstring GuiTabular::dialogToParams() const
 {
 	// FIXME: We should use Tabular directly.
-	string param_str = "tabular";
+	string param_str = "tabular from-dialog";
 
 	// table width
 	string tabwidth = widgetsToLength(tabularWidthED, tabularWidthUnitLC);
diff --git a/src/insets/InsetTabular.cpp b/src/insets/InsetTabular.cpp
index 2f0a111fee..07fca23082 100644
--- a/src/insets/InsetTabular.cpp
+++ b/src/insets/InsetTabular.cpp
@@ -4278,8 +4278,16 @@ bool InsetTabular::getStatus(Cursor & cur, FuncRequest const & cmd,
 		if (&cur.inset() != this || cmd.getArg(0) != "tabular") 
 			break;
 
-		string const s = cmd.getArg(1);
 		// FIXME: We only check for the very first argument...
+		string const s = cmd.getArg(1);
+		// We always enable the lfun if it is coming from the dialog
+		// because the dialog makes sure all the settings are valid,
+		// even though the first argument might not be valid now.
+		if (s == "from-dialog") {
+			status.setEnabled(true);
+			return true;
+		}
+
 		int action = Tabular::LAST_ACTION;
 		int i = 0;
 		for (; tabularFeature[i].action != Tabular::LAST_ACTION; ++i) {