On Wednesday 13 February 2008 04:50:30 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On Ubuntu with OOo 2.3, I am having a very hard time deleting columns
> in tables. If there is a table with the top row consisting of one cell
> merged so that spans four columns, and below that rows with four cells
>
> each, then non-edge cells cannot be deleted. I will illustrate:
> |-one-big-cell-|
> |11||12||13||14|
> |21||22||23||24|
> |31||32||33||34|
>
> Now, I want to delete the third column. Right clicking a cell in that
> column and clicking Delete removes the first column instead!
>
> Is this a bug, or am I missunderstanding the principal?
>
> Dotan Cohen
>
> http://what-is-what.com
> http://gibberish.co.il
> א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת
>
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
As I understand it, you need to remove the merging in your one-big-cell.
Then you should be able to remove the third column. Then merge the cells
again.
Dan
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