Re: [libreoffice-users] calc: method to subdivide individual cells

2013-02-15 Thread jomali
I've been following this thread and wondering what a use case would be for subdividing cells. On Thursday, February 14, 2013, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-02-14 9:19 AM, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: At 08:50 14/02/2013 -0500, Nobody Noname wrote: ... but it is much more

Re: [libreoffice-users] calc: method to subdivide individual cells

2013-02-15 Thread bill
On 2/15/2013 10:33 AM, jomali wrote: I've been following this thread and wondering what a use case would be for subdividing cells. I own a breeding kennel. I created a table to keep track of medication administration col A: date col B: dog 1 name, col title being the medication but when I

Re: [libreoffice-users] calc: method to subdivide individual cells

2013-02-15 Thread Tom Davies
@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 15 February 2013, 18:29 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] calc: method to subdivide individual cells On 2/15/2013 10:33 AM, jomali wrote: I've been following this thread and wondering what a use case would be for subdividing cells. I own a breeding kennel.  I

Re: [libreoffice-users] calc: method to subdivide individual cells

2013-02-15 Thread Jay Lozier
From: bill will...@techservsys.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 15 February 2013, 18:29 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] calc: method to subdivide individual cells On 2/15/2013 10:33 AM, jomali wrote: I've been following this thread

Re: [libreoffice-users] calc: method to subdivide individual cells

2013-02-15 Thread Dan Lewis
On 02/15/2013 01:29 PM, bill wrote: On 2/15/2013 10:33 AM, jomali wrote: I've been following this thread and wondering what a use case would be for subdividing cells. I own a breeding kennel. I created a table to keep track of medication administration col A: date col B: dog 1 name, col

Re: [libreoffice-users] calc: method to subdivide individual cells

2013-02-15 Thread Girvin R. Herr
Jomali, I once used it to correct a goof on a cell merge operation when it was impractical to use undo. I was only creating a form, so I was not referencing any of these cells. The problem was that the subdivide required a lot of cleanup to get the cell boundaries aligned again. Messy, but

Re: [libreoffice-users] calc: method to subdivide individual cells

2013-02-15 Thread bill
On 2/15/2013 1:47 PM, Jay Lozier wrote: On 02/15/2013 01:43 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Ahh, there was something about Ctrl Enter inside a cell makes an extra newline inside the cell itself. It doesn't sub-divide the cell but does just give you a newline in there. Regards from Tom :) CTRL

Re: [libreoffice-users] calc: method to subdivide individual cells

2013-02-15 Thread Tom Davies
:)  From: bill will...@techservsys.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 15 February 2013, 21:52 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] calc: method to subdivide individual cells On 2/15/2013 1:47 PM, Jay Lozier wrote: On 02/15/2013 01:43 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Ahh, there was something

Re: [libreoffice-users] calc: method to subdivide individual cells

2013-02-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-02-14 1:23 AM, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: At 20:14 13/02/2013 -0500, Pete Bonly wrote: Does calc have some kind of method to subdivide individual cells? Yes - but you have to think of the problem the other way about. You can select a number of cells and then

Re: [libreoffice-users] calc: method to subdivide individual cells

2013-02-14 Thread Brian Barker
At 08:50 14/02/2013 -0500, Nobody Noname wrote: On 2013-02-14 1:23 AM, Brian Barker wrote: At 20:14 13/02/2013 -0500, Pete Bonly wrote: Does Calc have some kind of method to subdivide individual cells? [...] By starting with multiple rows or multiple columns (or both?) and merging some of

Re: [libreoffice-users] calc: method to subdivide individual cells

2013-02-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-02-14 9:19 AM, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: At 08:50 14/02/2013 -0500, Nobody Noname wrote: ... but it is much more complicated than if there was the possibility to just subdivide a single cell into multiples... OK: suppose you divide cell Xn into four cells- two

Re: [libreoffice-users] calc: method to subdivide individual cells

2013-02-13 Thread Alan Boba
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:14 PM, pete b. phpet...@gmail.com wrote: Does calc have some kind of method to subdivide individual cells? Subdivide how? Using what criteria? For a cell or cells containing text it/they can be subdivided using the Data / Text to Columns... menu choice. -- For

Re: [libreoffice-users] calc: method to subdivide individual cells

2013-02-13 Thread Jay Lozier
On 02/13/2013 08:14 PM, pete b. wrote: Hi all, Does calc have some kind of method to subdivide individual cells? thanks, pete. Just curious, what are trying to do? There may be another way to solve your problem. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail

Re: [libreoffice-users] calc: method to subdivide individual cells

2013-02-13 Thread Brian Barker
At 20:14 13/02/2013 -0500, Pete Bonly wrote: Does calc have some kind of method to subdivide individual cells? Yes - but you have to think of the problem the other way about. You can select a number of cells and then *merge* them, either by going to Format | Merge Cells or using the Merge