Hi :)
This sort of thing would work more easily in a database.  I take it that Calc 
is having the problems?  It might be possible to use Base to read the 
spreadsheet and then export to an external back-end that would really take care 
of the data and stop lines from being broken up in that way.  

However in Calc can you define a fixed area to be a database?  Is that 
something to do with pivot-tables or data-pilot or something?  

For the data-recovery aspect do you have a fairly recent version of your file 
on Usb-stick, or emailed to yourself or to someone else or backed-up on a local 
machine or somewhere on the network file-shares or saved to a Cloud while you 
were working on it from 2 places.  
Regards from 
Tom :)  






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> From: Carl Paulsen <[email protected]>
>To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> 
>Sent: Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 18:47
>Subject: [libreoffice-users] Sort problems
> 
>
>LO 4.0.3.3
>
>I've had some problems with sorting that may have cost me 6 hours of 
>work.  Wondering what's going on.
>
>Biggest problem is that when sorting and choosing to "expand selection" 
>it sometimes only expands to some of the columns of data.  Why would 
>this happen?  I noticed this after a while of working on a large data 
>file, and earlier sorts may have only sorted a portion of the sheet, 
>meaning I have to check and possibly re-create all of my work.
>
>Much less problematic, recently I'm sorting a sheet and it sorts not 
>only the column of data but also the columns themselves.  Since I'm 
>using vlookup a bunch, with static references (to work properly in my 
>case), this re-sorting will screw up the entire file.  I can't afford 
>the time to recreate the vlookups each time I sort.
>
>I didn't have latter this problem under 3.x.x
>
>Carl
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