Hi :)
My answer was a generic heal-all (fingers crossed). It doesn't always work
but it does fix a lot of weird and unlikely errors. It's a bit of a
sledge-hammer approach. With non-OpenSource programs the equivalent is to
uninstall and re-install the program but OpenSource programs tend to use
Thanks for the response - and to Brian who emailed me
After a bit more investigation I'm (fingers crossed) convinced its to do
with a corrupted spreadsheet rather than a failure within Libreoffice. The
broken up column header was only happening with one spreadsheet, the
spreadsheet was saved as xl