Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 61405
Split a cell to match neighboring cells
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:34:45 UTC
Split a cell to match neighboring cells. Writer can already split a cell of a table vertically and horizintally into specified number of cells. Provide an additional option, where Writer senses the number of cells in the neighboring column/row and offers that number automatically. This will be useful in the following circumstances: (a) To split a cell that was created by merging some cells (i.e., de-merge the cells) (b) Match the current column/row to the neighboring column/row A special case: If columns/rows flanking the cell have different number of cells, offer both the choices to user. Note: This feature is already available in MS Word, where the default number of cells is picked up from the neighboring cells. (It cannot deal with different number of cells on both sides, though).
Reassigned to requirements.
i agree, point b) is important and will probably make cleaner code in the file. Plus it makes changes easier later.... What would also be very useful and would go with this, is the option to split cells by extending neighboring cell boundaries. Extending boundaries to split cells would also make work flow easier, e.g. I have a table split into 30 columns and a number of rows, the top row has been merged into 1 cell. I want to split the top cell so that it has 4 columns justified with columns 1,5,15 and 28 respectively.... The workaround would be to delete the row, make a new row with all the cells and merge selected cells. but what if the first column is merged?