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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Nov 27 23:41:49 -0800 2005 ------- >individual cells can't have different heights/widths from the > row/column they are in. That logic is NOT correct-- The width/height of a cell can NOT be constrained by its column or row. The simple reason for that is that unlike a spreadsheet, cells in Writer are not meant to be stacked in a perfect row or column. In fact, Writer does allow a user to have staggered borders of cells in a table. Try this simple experiment: In a 4x4 table, split cell B2 vertically. A new cell C2 is created. You can drag the border between B2 and C2 to resize both these cells FREELY, without affecting the other cells. This vertical line between the new cells is NOT aligned with any of the columns of the table. Note also that the erstwhile C column now has a mix of cells: C1, D2, C3, C4,... If you move the right-hand border of column C, the cell D2 also gets resized. Going by your logic, it should not! The bottomline is, Writer does allow a table where any cell can have a staggered border, which can be adjusted freely WITHOUT affecting the neighboring cells. In a similar way, if you have a row with adequate height, you can split a cell vertically and then drag its midle border vertically without affecting the row height. (If your original row has only bare-minimum height, resizing the cell will affect the entire row. But if you increase its height beforehand, you CAN resize the split cells without affecting the row.) To sum up, Writer allows the user to freely adjust a cell border with one mechanism (cell-splitting), but not with the other (with the "redistribute height/width" command)! And THAT is the inconsistency in its behavior, and therefore a defect. **** BTW there two other limitations that are based on the same faulty logic: * User not allowed to draw a table (as the "pencil" tool does in MS Word) * User not allowed to erase the border between certain cells (as the "eraser" tool does in MS Word). But the user can have EXACTLY THE SAME EFFECT, by splitting and merging the cells, respectively! (I know there is a separate issue for this topic, but since it is based on EXACTLY the same logic, it deserves a mention here.) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
