On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 02:31 +0100, Ennio-Sr wrote:
> * Ennio-Sr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [270205, 01:26]:
> > * Jonathon Coombes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [270205, 08:49]:
> > > On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 21:44 +0100, Cor Nouws wrote:
> > > > Hello Ennio,
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Ennio-Sr wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > However, while munging it, I discovered that typing a single
> > > > > "-" in a cell would do what I was looking for, i.e. fill the whole 
> > > > > cell
> > > > > with hyphens (sometimes beyond the cell border).
> > > > > As this behaviour seems to be undocumented, I wonder whether it is
> > > > > normal ?!
> > > > > Just to be sure I closed and re-opened the spreadsheet in which I was
> > > > > testing and it still works :-).
> > > > 
> > > > Sound interesting.
> > > > How do you get that? Doesn't work for me ..
> > > > (OOo 1.1.2)
> > > 
> > > I am wondering if this is a variation of the border/line autoformat
> > > that you get in Writer when you put in a number of hyphen characters?
> > > 
> > 
> > Hmmm ... no wonder: it only works on that particular spreadsheet but I'm
> > not sure why it does so; I tried to obtain the same result in a new
> > empty s-sheet but was unsuccessfull ;(
> > Still investigating .....
> > Regards,
> >     Ennio
> >     
> 
> OK, I was able to reproduce it in a brand-new spreadsheet:
> 
> 1. fill manually A5 with hyphens
> 2. point on right-end-corner of cell A5 and drag it up to cell D5:
>    all cells from A1 to D5 are now filled with hyphens.
> 3. At this stage, if you type a hyphens in any cell on columns C,D,E and
>    press Enter, the cell will be automaically filled!
> 
> Don't ask me why ;-)
> 
> Good night,
>       Ennio.
> 
> 

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