https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124034

Rainer Bielefeld <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|REOPENED                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |NOT_AN_ISSUE

--- Comment #6 from Rainer Bielefeld 
<[email protected]> ---
(In reply to TAB from comment #5)
(a) Your examples do not match with things happening when you merge cells, so 
    your argumentation is wrong. If you do things completely different it's
    expected that the result might be different.

(b) The message appearing tells that the merge process will hide some cells 
    and that the contents of those cells what will be hidden can be moved 
    into the first cell A1 (in my first example). 

(c) "Move" from (b) sounds very similar to 'For B1: <control+c> -> click A1
    -> <f2> -> control+v - <Enter>', and the result in A1 proceeding so is
    the same or at least very similar to the result after merge.

(d) of course the behavior is unexpected from point of view of an naive
approach,
    and it is reasonable tho think about a function doing things more
intuitive,
    some new feature SMARTMERGE, results some closer to the cell merge 
    function of Writer
    But that is something different from a bugfix. For that developers would
need
(e) Theory of all
(e1) Real life examples: do really enough people need that? and for what?
(e2) What does ODF specifications tell?
(e3) Situation with competitors (IMHO Excel 2010 only keeps contents of top 
     left cell ...)? 
(e4) and so on.
    If information is available we can rate costs / benefit relation

So closing again, we don't have a bug here

@TAB:
Please feel free to open a separate feature request for your needs.

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