From: Jody Goldberg (jody@gnome.org)
Date: Tue Nov 12 2002 - 22:43:35 EST
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 01:46:19AM +0000, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> --- Martin Sevior <msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au>
> wrote: >
> >
> > PS. Does anyone know how to make Open Office produce
> > a table with cells that span multiple rows? Also is
> > there anything like our merge cells feature in OO?
>
> From the GUI, in their file format, or in general?
> To see if they support it, try importing an RTF or
> .doc which has such a table.
1) They have gone to great lengths to use the same format for their
tables and their spreadsheets. The format definitely supports
spanning (cols & rows) and even has some tricky bits where
content is replicated across consecutive columns. Have a look at
the gnumeric OO importer for details
2) I found it very difficult to use OO to generate some of the more
interesting corner cases. In general it was simpler to do the
work in MS Office, import to OO, then export. This seems like an
important test anyway given that the vast majority of documents
start off in MS form anyway.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Tue Nov 12 2002 - 22:53:28 EST