Hi :) +1 Also ... Errr, how are the cells being hidden?!?? Of course it is possible to hide an entire row or column by clicking on the row/column header (1, 2, 3 etc or A, B, C etc) and then right-click to hide the entire row/column.
To hide individual cells it might be easier to grab a graphic, drag it onto the spreadsheet, perhaps right-click again to "Anchor to" - "page" and resize to fit the cell(s). It's also probably possible to put a frame over the cells and then have writing or number in the frame although it might be difficult to then reach those numbers in calculations in the rest of the spreadsheet because they wont be recognised as being in a cell. Regards from Tom :) On 12 August 2014 04:33, Brian Barker <[email protected]> wrote: > At 19:34 11/08/2014 -0700, Tom Williams wrote: > >> My dad is a long time OpenOffice user and today he called me about a >> problem he's having with one of his spreadsheets. Apparently, he hides rows >> to reduce the amount of information he sees when he's looking at the >> spreadsheet. Today, he needed to change a cell in one of the hidden rows. >> When he tried to make a change, he showed the row but wasn't able to change >> a cell because something prevented him from making changes. When he showed >> the hidden row, he saw an icon for an anchor and green squares along the >> perimeter of the selection of the now shown rows. >> >> He sent the spreadsheet to me and when I open it in LibreOffice Calc, >> 4.2.4.2 on Linux, I see the same behavior he describes. From what I can >> tell, it looks like Calc converts the hidden row into an image or graphic >> of some kind such that when he tries to change it, he can't because those >> rows are now part of an image/graphic or "object" that's embedded in the >> file. >> > > I doubt very much that Calc has converted values to a picture of those > values. But yes: you very probably do have a graphic or other object in or > covering the relevant cells. If you need to modify a cell which appears > inaccessible because of an overlaid graphic, there are a number of ways to > do this. > > o You can type the cell reference into the Name Box and then edit the > contents in the Input Line. > > o You can (temporarily?) suppress display of the graphic at Tools | > Options... | LibreOffice Calc | View | Objects | Objects/Graphics. > > o Most easily, you can send the graphic to the background using > right-click | Arrange > | To Background. If you do this, you may want to > bring it back to the front after you have completed the edit, but you will > not be able to select it by simply clicking on it precisely because it is > now in the background. One convenient way to select the graphic is to open > the Navigator (go to View | Navigator or press F5) and double-click the > name of the graphic. You can then use right-click | Arrange > | To > Foreground to reset the position. > > Of course, if you cannot see the graphic and are not missing anything, it > may be that you don't want it and can merely delete it. > > 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
