2009/12/24 William Case <billli...@rogers.com>: > Hi; > > I may be having a brain cramp but ... > > In Calc, how do I group some rows together before sorting? > > For example, I have a small set of data like > > Col:A Col:B Col:C Col:D > > row1 jkdfa dsajh ociv > row2 djafsh ire q.e ab > row3 cd > row4 ef > row5 zpdd uwen qerw > > I want to sort on Col:A, however I want to somehow group rows 2, 3 & 4 > together so that at the end of the sort rows 2, 3 & 4 are still > contiguous. > > I am sure there is a way to do this that I have forgotten. If a help > explanation exists, then I have also forgotten the correct help index > criteria (word) to search under.
I am actually not sure this is possible, but here's a workaround: Your spreadsheet looks like this: > Col:A Col:B Col:C Col:D > > row1 jkdfa dsajh ociv > row2 djafsh ire q.e ab > row3 cd > row4 ef > row5 zpdd uwen qerw Make it look like this instead: Col:A Col:B Col:C Col:D row1 jkdfa dsajh ociv row2 djafsh ire q.e ab row3 djafsh ire q.e cd row4 djafsh ire q.e ef row5 zpdd uwen qerw Now, use conditional formatting to make a cell look empty if the cell above it has the same content: Create a style that use the same character colour as the background colour. In the conditional formatting dialogue, select ”cell value is” and enter the following (for A2 in this case): =A1 Then select your new style that should be selected if the statement is true. Johnny Rosenberg > > A reminder in either case would be helpful -- am starting to get > frustrated. > > > -- > Regards Bill > Fedora 12, Gnome 2.28 > Evo.2.28, Emacs 23.1.1 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
