Be aware that pasting a straddled cell from your source will usually replace multiple cells (equal to the number of the original straddling) in your destination. That is, unless the straddle is pasted to the last cell in a row, in which case it just replaces the last cell as an unstraddled cell (at least in FM10 which is the version I have handy).
I always thought FM has some pretty predictable cell pasting rules. Sometimes the best thing to do is just create two small tables and then copy and paste away to see what each type of copy/paste does (straddled/unstraddled content, entire rows, entire columns, entire tables pasted into the same sized table, etc.). I attempted to write a description of what the rules are but that has proven very difficult given the results I am seeing. Creating a sample tables and trying things seems to be the most instructive thing. It can produce some very interesting results when you deal with straddles. Since you know how (at least) you destination table is structured in terms of straddles, that may help you figure out what is happening. Here's are some oddities. If you straddle two cells in a table and then copy that straddled cell to the clipboard, then paste that cell to the entire body of a 5 cell wide table, the straddled cell replaces all the cells in the first two columns and all the cells in the last two columns with copies of itself. However, it leaves the center column as-is. That's unexpected behavior in my book. If you do the same copy but paste by only highlighting the first 4 columns of cells, a paste leave the first two columns straddled, the 3rd column untouched and the 4th column unstraddled, but with the contents of the straddled cells. (The 5th column, predictably, is untouched). Craig -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20120308/9ed975a9/attachment.html>
