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

I've been following this thread and wondering what a use case would be for
subdividing cells.


On Thursday, February 14, 2013, Tanstaafl wrote:

> On 2013-02-14 9:19 AM, Brian Barker <b.m.barker@btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> > At 08:50 14/02/2013 -0500, Nobody Noname wrote:
> >
> > > ... but it is much more complicated than if there was the possibility
> > > to just subdivide a single cell into multiples...
>  OK: suppose you divide cell Xn into four cells- two vertically and two
> > horizontally.  How do you now refer to the four new cells in formulae?
>
> Initially, until some method was developed that made sense, it could just
> be a limitation of split cells that you can't use them in formulas.
>
> And maybe it would have to stay that way. None of the times I wanted to be
> able to do this was it critical that I me able to use them in formulas.
>
>  And which of the now four separate values gets used if you refer to
> > plain cell Xn in a formula?
>
> Pick one (upper left, lower right, etc). Could even be a pref. Or, as
> above, make it unsupported, unless/until a method is developed for
> supporting it that makes sense.
>
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