Re: [libreoffice-users] Merging columns, not cells

2015-01-29 Thread Mark Howe
: Brian Barker Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 8:02 PM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Merging columns, not cells At 18:01 28/01/2015 -0800, Mark Howe wrote: Can you give me an example of a concatenation formula for a column of text merged with a column

[libreoffice-users] Merging columns, not cells

2015-01-28 Thread Mark Howe
I can’t find help for merging columns or ranges. Is it possible? Merging cells is so easy, but I hate to have to do it a million times. Mark W. Howe San Juan Capistrano, CA 949-496-3453 home/ office 949-525-3914 cell [not for messages] Phao Binh

Re: [libreoffice-users] Merging columns, not cells

2015-01-28 Thread Brian Barker
At 06:44 28/01/2015 -0800, Mark Howe wrote: I can't find help for merging columns or ranges. Is it possible? Merging cells is so easy, but I hate to have to do it a million times. I don't think so. You can merge two cells into one. Or a range of cells into one - so a column or columns into a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Merging columns, not cells

2015-01-28 Thread Rob Jasper
Mark, With merging I assume you mean concatenating the strings into one column... I generally put a concatenate formula in a separate column, then select cut that complete column and special past values to the desired column. Rob. Op 28 jan. 2015, om 15:44 heeft Mark Howe het volgende

Re: [libreoffice-users] Merging columns, not cells

2015-01-28 Thread Mark Howe
@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Merging columns, not cells At 06:44 28/01/2015 -0800, Mark Howe wrote: I can't find help for merging columns or ranges. Is it possible? Merging cells is so easy, but I hate to have to do it a million times. I don't think so. You can merge two

Re: [libreoffice-users] Merging columns, not cells

2015-01-28 Thread Brian Barker
At 18:01 28/01/2015 -0800, Mark Howe wrote: Can you give me an example of a concatenation formula for a column of text merged with a column of numbers? The resulting column would have the text and number in one cell. You can concatenate values using the CONCATENATE() function or - more

Re: [libreoffice-users] Merging columns, not cells

2015-01-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It might be possible by saving as a .csv file (possibly losing all the formulas and certainly all the formatting) and then use a text-editor to remove some of the commas. It's not much more elegant and would probably take even longer and maybe even make quite a mess - but it might be an