Re: [libreoffice-users] Merge cell problem LO3.3.2.2

Tom,
Thanks for your suggestions - I guess I will have to try that since I'm not getting what I want 
with what I'm doing.
This is "off" the subject issue, but I come from a very small town. My high school class - 1961 -  
was the first to got over 50. We had 60 in the class, 55 who "walked" on graduation night. The 
other 5 finished in summer school. The classes continued to grow after that, though I don't think 
they ever went over 100; and are probably running around 70-75 now, if not less.
I just finished organizing my class's 50th reunion and am now putting together a reunion for the 
classes of 1955-1964. The total number of students during that period is, according to my 
spreadsheet, 500. I dare say, I knew, and remember about 490 of those, along with quite a few 
others from the classes before and after. We were all like one big family - you usually knew whole 
families because you knew someone in your class, or within 2 or 3 years of your class. Your 
classmates were, essentially, your group of friends.
Anyway, every class in this group has, in some format, a database of their classmates and their 
information. Each class has a few that have gone "missing in action", but we are all working 
together to find everyone. This will be the 4th, I think, combined reunion like this over the past 
50 years, and this combined database is something that got started after the first one. But, it has 
not been updated since the last reunion in 1997. Every classmate - there are a few exceptions - has 
given there info to freely share with everyone. And everyone at this reunion will receive a copy of 
this spreadsheet I'm working on.
Roxy

Hi :)

I did something similar once.  It's easier to keep the data intact, in the 3
separate columns for data entry and for sorting the lists into alphabetical
order and stuff but then use a 2nd worksheet (2nd tab at the bottom) to use
formulas to add the 3 names together. eg
A2 = Sheet1.A2 & " " & Sheet1.B2 & " " & Sheet1.C2
You might have renamed the worksheet tabs so just swap the new name for "Sheet1"
but still make sure there is a dot . after it and before the cell address.

There are issues with "Data Protection" and respecting people's right to privacy
but if they have given you their addresses and know that it's for sharing with
the whole class then that sort-of implies that they have given you permission.
I'm not sure wheter it's legally enough but it probably gives you a good
position.
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)




----- Original Message ----
> From: Roxy Robinson <rocmar62@ranchwireless.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Sent: Sat, 11 June, 2011 15:51:55
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Merge cell problem LO3.3.2.2
>
> I have a 15 page spreadsheet of classmate addresses, phone numbers, email, etc.
> I "manipulate" this information in several different ways to give my classmates
> different kinds of "directories". Anyway, their names are in the first 3
> columns. This particular spreadsheet is going to include ALL the information on
> each person, will be printed on legal sized paper in landscape format, so I need
> a little more room to contain everything on the width of the page.
> So  (SEVERAL TIMES) I have merged the cells in the first 3 columns. This
> contains  the parts of their names, and allows me to conserve enough room to get
> everything on the width of the page. But every time I close LO, and then come
> back to work on this spreadsheet, the cells are no longer "merged". They will
> not stay merged. I haven't gotten all the way through the spreadsheet - at one
> time - to merge the cells. Would the "un-merged" cells that are left in the 3
> columns keep the ones above them from staying merged, or am I doing something
> wrong? I just don't understand - time after time - I merge them, come back and
> they are no long merged??????????
> Roxy
>
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