Richard Detwiler wrote:
> Chuck wrote:
>> Dan Lewis wrote:
>>
>>  
>>>      If it is a title that you want centered at the top, what is
>>> wrong with using a header and centering the title in it?
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>     
>>
>> I wanted it centered over two columns. Something like this.
>>
>> +-------------------+
>> |    Breakfast      |
>> +--------+----------+
>> +Insulin | BG level +
>> +--------+----------+
>> |        |          |
>> +--------+----------+
>> |        |          |
>>
>> "Merge and center" would seem to be the obvious choice, except for the
>> fact that I am syncing this spreadsheet with Pocket Excel which does not
>> support "merge and center". Instead it uses "center across selection"
>> which is *not* the same thing though visually they appear similar. CAS
>> is supported by the full version of Excel and is different from merging
>> cells. If I were to remove OOo from the mix and just used Excel,
>> everything would work perfectly.
>>
>> What this thread is pointing out is that OOo 2.02 is not completely
>> compatible with Excel and cannot be safely used in a "mixed" environment
>> which IMO is a show stopper for corporate acceptance. The formatting of
>> a spreadsheet created in Excel will be silently changed by OOo 2.02 if
>> that spreadsheet uses "center across selection".
>>
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> 
> Sounds to me like Pocket Excel is not compatible with regular Excel either.

Not completely. It's a stripped down version that fits/runs on a Pocket
PC. But it doesn't change one type of formatting to another. OOo on the
other hand does, and does it silently.

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