On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 07:47 -0700, david thompson wrote: > I suspect the documentation regarding control of "overflow" associated > with cells with content which extends beyond the width of the cell is > staring me in the face on the gnumeric website. Nevertheless... > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnumeric-list/2005-June/msg00158.html > indicates "#### means "too wide to display _and_ cannot overflow into > next column because something is there." > > 1. Is there a straightforward way -- without changing column width -- > to cause the content of a cell, when it exceeds the width of the cell, > to extend into the adjacent cell(s) irrespective of whether the > adjacent cell(s) are 'full' or 'empty'?
no. If you want to have cell content spread over the space of several cells you could of course merge those cells into a single cell. > > 2. I see ### in a cell adjacent to (apparently) empty cells, > suggesting that the mailing list content cited above maybe isn't > telling the story -- i.e., gnumeric chooses to not display content > even when adjacent cells are empty. Or... perhaps cells can look > 'empty' but have some sort of hidden content? If the latter is the > case, is there a straightforward way to determine if a cell is truly > 'empty'? The only thing that can really overflow in to the next cell is straight text. Even text that is created by a formula cannot overflow. Andreas -- Andreas J. Guelzow, PhD, FTICA Mathematical & Computing Sciences Concordia University College of Alberta _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list gnumeric-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
