Thank's for your advice folks. Brian's analysis is spot on I think.
I do in fact have merged cells above the area in the Writer table where I was attempting to delete specific columns, including one bridging the entire table row. I guess I was expecting just the cells I highlit to be deleted, but from now I'll take note of the situation and handle accordingly. Much appreciated, so problem closed (please let me know if I have to make an entry anywhere denoting this). Tom Robinson. ________________________________ From: Brian Barker <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, 27 January 2014, 17:33 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Deleting Table Column Causes Whole Table To Disappear At 14:16 27/01/2014 +0000, Tom Robinson wrote: >I tried to delete columns in an existing table created under >OpenOffice (in Windows XP), and this causes the whole table to be disappear. At 17:36 27/01/2014 +0100, Alex Thurgood wrote: >So LO 4.1.4.2 and a table in Writer ... If you delete a column in a table in a text (Writer) document where any of the cells in that column are merged with cells in adjacent columns, it appears that the neighbouring columns containing those merged cells will be deleted too. If any row has all its cells merged (or if some combination of merging involves all columns), then you will delete all columns, or in other words delete the entire table. To avoid this, you may have to demerge (i.e. split) the rogue cells or perhaps to split the table, so that you can delete the required column in a part of the table not containing the merged cells. I trust this helps. Brian Barker -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
