On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Michael Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:08:55 +0100
> Came this utterance fomulated by Martin Bloomberg to my mailbox:
>
> > I have been a user of Lotus 123 for many years
> >
> > One function I miss in Open Office is the Paste Special option to
> > paste Column Widths and Row Heights
> >
> > I do use this useful option quite often and would like to suggest that
> > the function be added if possible
> >
>
> IBM have a product which incorporates Lotus 123 IIUC.
> http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/product_sse
>
> OpenOffice.org has it's own function for adjusting column and row
> width/height.
>
> If you still wish for your feature, you can add it as a RFE to the issue
> list and see if it gets enough votes.
> http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/handling_RFEs.html
> http://qa.openoffice.org/ooQAReloaded/Docs/QA-Reloaded-HowToStart.html
>
> You may wish to provide a better description of the functionality you
> desire. You may find it actually exists in a different form to that
> which you are used to, making it a migration issue. Without the 123
> experience i don't understand sufficiently from your explaination what
> you are used to doing.
>
> --
> Michael


Thanks for the prompt reply


Re your various observations


1. Yes I did try IBM's Symphony some time ago. I find Lotus 123 and Open
Office superior


2. I know one can adjust row heights and column widths with Open Office but
I want to copy and paste from existing adjusted backgrounds

In Lotus one uses Copy and then Paste Special where one of the tickable
option boxes is 'copy column widths and row heights'

3. What I use  the function for in Lotus  is when I am working from an
already created spreadsheet with adjusted columns and rows. I regularly have
the need to copy this frame either to the side or below my existing data and
sometimes to a newly created spreadsheet

I'll wait to see if you have any further comments to make and then submit it
as an RFE as you suggest

Thanks for the advice

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