Re: [libreoffice-users] calc: method to subdivide individual cells

On 2013-02-14 1:23 AM, Brian Barker <b.m.barker@btinternet.com> wrote:
> At 20:14 13/02/2013 -0500, Pete Bonly wrote:
> > Does calc have some kind of method to subdivide individual cells?
>
> Yes - but you have to think of the problem the other way about.
>
> You can select a number of cells and then *merge* them, either by going
> to Format | Merge Cells or using the Merge Cells button in the
> Formatting toolbar.  By starting with multiple rows or multiple columns
> (or both?) and merging some of the cells you can achieve the same effect
> as you would by subdividing cells.  If you have an existing spreadsheet,
> you will want to insert additional rows or columns adjacent to your
> problem ones in order to start this process.
>
> I trust this helps.

This will 'work', but it is much more complicated than if there was the 
possibility to just subdivide a single cell into multiples...

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