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> On 12 Jun 2014, at 4:02 am, Hung Mark <mark...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Brian,
> 
> Thank you for the advices, but I expect that textflow to stop before  the
> page footer and start from next page instead of covering over the page
> number. That's what I'm asking for help.

You can,t fill a  10 liter bucket with 11 liter water.

> I use it in a way as a form to collect opinions from other people and
> append new text. ( like issue tracking ) I believe this is not an unusual
> case of spreadsheet usage

Yes it is unusual, what you try to do is driving a screw in the wall wit a 
hamer.

> and using writer arise other inconvenience
> despite it solves formatting problem.
>> 2014/6/12 上午12:42 於 "Brian Barker" <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> 寫道:
>> 
>> At 23:34 11/06/2014 +0800, Hung Mark wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm using OpenOffice 4.1.0 ( Windows 7 with traditional Chinese ). When I
>>> enter lots of text in a cell in Calc so that it excess the height of a
>>> page, it overlaps with the page footer.
>> 
>> I'm not sure what you are hoping to happen here. Surely the nature of a
>> spreadsheet - usually containing values, whether they be numbers, text,
>> etc, to be processed - is that you would not want a single cell to be split
>> across pages. If a multi-line cell would otherwise be split across pages,
>> it is moved wholesale to the next page, but that cannot solve the problem
>> if, as you have contrived, a single cell exceeds the page length.
>> 
>> How do I prevent it?
>> 
>> o Change the font size.
>> o Go to Format | Cells... | Alignment | Properties, remove the tick from
>> "Wrap text automatically", and tick "Shrink to fit cell size".
>> o Distribute the material between two cells.
>> o Use a text (Writer) document instead. A table may be useful.
>> o Use a spreadsheet but transfer the material to a text document for final
>> formatting.
>> 
>> I trust this helps.
>> 
>> Brian Barker
>> 
>> 
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