[libreoffice-users] Importing a row from a spreadsheet - solved, sort of.

Thank you, Mike for your interest and suggestion.

I was not familiar with the concatenate function, and it does look a
powerful one. But I am not sure it helps me greatly in what I want to
do, since I do wish to retain the cell identities – it’s just that I
want them in more readily presentational-editable form.


What I have done for the moment is to select the entire range of active
cells in the document, copy them, and then paste-special-HTML into a new
odt, which gives me a simple text table. From there it is
straightforward to select and copy content re a single item to a
slightly different (more reader-friendly) table to accompany the image
to which it refers.


It is not clear to me why whoever set up the original index chose to do
so as a spreadsheet. There is very little likelihood of the
sophisticated ‘search’ functions being used. Conversely, I am a great
fan of tables in odts – use them all the time for all sorts of purposes,
sometimes merely transitional.


Sincerely

Ian Graham

On 29/04/2023 11:46, Mike Flannigan wrote:
> concatenate command
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