Hi Kevin,
McLauchlan, Kevin wrote:
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
I am not quite sure what your getting at here. How did you create the
table? I just did a quick test with 6 rows and the cut and paste worked
as expected. More info or a sample file to work from would help, send
direct.
Andy
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