You should be able to left justify the cell after you center and merge two cells.
Rob Hawkins <>< Sent from BlueMail On Sep 21, 2017, 8:10 PM, at 8:10 PM, Kevin O'Brien <[email protected]> wrote: >I am not aware of any way to have a single column where different cells >have different widths. > >Regards, > > > >-- >Kevin B. O'Brien >z <[email protected]>[email protected] >http://google.me/+kevinobrien >http://www.google.com/profiles/Ahuka5656 >http://about.me/zwilnik >“People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be >afraid of their people.” - Alan Moore, *V for Vendetta* >*Public Key = F6283E7A <https://pgp.mit.edu/>* > > >On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 4:41 PM, Mike Ray <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello >> >> I'm tearing my hair out here. >> >> I think there is a bug in LibreOffice Calc when merging cells. >> >> I want to merge several cells horizontally. I get the option to >either >> merge and centre, or just merge, when I would think the text should >be >> left justified unless I've specifically said right justify it. >> >> But if I select merge rather than centre and merge, when I go back >into >> the menu centre and merge is ticked. >> >> And, because I can't see, I convert the sheet to pdf and then: >> >> pdftotext -layout -htmlmeta sheet.pdf >> >> And looking at the resulting html file, all the texts in merged >groups >> start in different columns, suggesting it is definitely centred. >> >> Is there a way to have different column widths in the same column in >> different parts of the sheet? >> >> I want the A column ten centimetres wide in the first 10 rows, and >then >> I want column A 4 centimetres wide, and column B 10 centimetres wide >> from the eleventh row. >> >> Anybody got any ideas? >> >> The accessibility of LibreOffice is getting worse. >> >> Mike >> >> >> >> -- >> Michael A. Ray >> Analyst/Programmer >> Witley, Surrey, South-east UK >> >> Disclaimer: It wasn't me, you didn't see me, you can't prove a thing. >> >> https://cromarty.github.io/ >> http://eyesfreelinux.ninja/ >> http://www.raspberryvi.org/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Hpr mailing list >> [email protected] >> >http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org >> > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Hpr mailing list >[email protected] >http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org
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