Detlef Grittner schrieb:

> I thought, well, maybe Writer is the better app for my purpose and
> linked the Calc spreadsheet into a Text document with my comments.
> Unfortunately the Calc table now spread over several pages and it is not
> possible to paginate it in Writer. That is you can put the OLE object on
> one page and select a part of the Calc contents, which is viewed, but I
> want to show all contents spread over several pages. Exactly as tables
> in Writer do it, but when I imported the spreadsheet as table, I lost
> the formulas of the calculations of course.

You could set Writer into "WebLayout" and then insert the spreadsheet as
an OLE object. This way it can be bigger than a page. Won't help for
printing admittedly.

> Not to mention what happened when I tried the same with MS Office,
> frankly speaking I turned the output into a piece of modern art with it.
> Although I am aware that it is not so easy to implement OLE
> functionality that allows Writer to paginate Calc spreadsheets, this
> would be a feature, which currently no office suite seems to implement.

The OLE implementation of MSOffice always was very bad, it was bad on
Win3.1 (the first time I had to work with it) and it still is. It only
works reliably with MSOffice applications.

> What would be needed is:
> - Paginate OLE Calc spreadsheet tables like tables in Writer.

If you are in the print layout you can't do anything as OLE object views
can't be bigger than a page. So what comes as close as possible would be
an insertion of multiple objects, each one containing a view to a part
of the same spreadsheet. Basically doable but quite some effort.

> - Resize cells in Calc containing OLE Writer documents automatically to
> the size of the document.

OLE objects are not inserted into cells, they are bound to the drawing
page that lies behind the cells. So no way for this.

> - Paginate OLE Writer document in Calc together with the cells, without
> overlap.

I'm not sure if I understand. The limitation to page boundaries for OLE
objects is true for Calc also, though you will not see it in the
"regular" layout, only the page layout will show this.

> Combine the functionality of Calc and Writer into one application. Then
> you have a worksheet and simply put text or tables on demand onto it.

Yes, that's what I described (more or less). But that would be
completely new application.

Ciao,
Mathias

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