OOo 3.2 on Windows XP Pro X64 I have a small document that includes a narrow 2-column table, consisting of a heading row and 54 rows of content.
I wanted to make the table double-wide and bring the lower 27 rows up to occupy the new columns 3 and 4. Is there a quick and direct way to do this? Lacking time to dig up whatever OOo would call this function (if it existed), I just did the brute-force method. I added two more columns to the existing table, then copied rows 28 through 54 of columns 1 and 2 and pasted them into rows 1 through 27 of columns 3 and 4. However, it didn't work smoothly. I _selected_ rows 28 through 54 and did [Ctrl][C], but when I then selected the empty (columns 3 and 4) areas of rows 1 through 27 and hit [Ctrl][V] all the copied material got nicely pasted in the desired places... except one row OFF. That is, when I selected the desired content cells that I wanted to move (row x col) 28 x 1 through 54 x 2 and copied, then selected the empty cells (row x col) 1 x 3 through 27 x 4 and pasted, the target cells were filled with the contents of the original 27x1 through 53x2. I tried it several times, with the same result. The copy starts one row higher and ends one row higher than what was visually selected <click, scroll-scroll-scroll, shift-click>. I eventually did some contortions to get the contents to match properly. Yes, I could have gone with the original tall skinny table flowing through two typographical columns on the same page, rather than just messing with the table itself. This is what I started with. 1 2 3 4 : 54 This is what I wanted. 1 28 2 29 3 30 4 31 : : 27 54 This (below) is what I get if I just copy and paste. 1 27 2 28 3 29 4 30 : : 27 53 ... even though I DEFINITELY started my selection at row 28, not row 27, and DEFINITELY had row 54 highlighted when I pressed [Ctrl][C]. It's probably not a bug, just my peculiar way of seeing things that should otherwise be "obvious". :-) Oh, and the document came from Word, but the "entries" were just individual paragraphs, not yet made into a table when I opened in OOo. In case that matters. Kevin McLauchlan Senior Technical Writer SafeNet, Inc. -- The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
