On 13/02/2008, Barbara Duprey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There are a number of oddities about the behavior of merged cells,
>  basically coming (I think) from the way the merged cell is identified to
>  the various row/column manipulation functions. It may be a pretty deep
>  problem to fix. I've reported what is probably a related issue: a
>  vertically merged cell is allowed to break across page boundaries when
>  row breaks are not allowed. This is the other side of the coin from what
>  you're saying about being able to delete rows that have a vertically
>  merged spanning cell (I don't think it needs to be the first column,
>  though that's the most frequent, probably).
>
>  There's also interference with the cell boundary lines under various
>  conditions. Altogether, the merged cell needs to retain its individual
>  cell identities in some ways but not in others, which gets really
>  tricky! (And let's not even get into weird stuff like L-shaped cells,
>  with a mix of horizontal and vertical merging.)

I could not produce L-shaped cells in my testing. Does this work for
you? Under what conditions?

Dotan Cohen

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