At 18:46 18/01/2009 +0200, Hylton Conacher wrote:
I copy a section from Sheet1 A1:J30 and then go to the sheet name
bearing the name of the street ie Dolphin. I right click on the cell
I want the paste to start, select Paste special and make sure Paste
all and Link are selected. I then O and the text is pasted correctly.
[...]
Now I move back to sheet 1 and change the formatting of the Dolphin
street name ie I merge some of the cells in the street name row so
that the street name is more centralised. I now visit the Dolphin
sheet and see that the street name format is exactly the same as
before I changed it ie no changes to the format have been made.
Given that the sheets contents and formats are linked, why is Calc
refusing to adopt the changes in a linked sheet?
I think you have discovered how linking works: that only the contents
of the cell are linked to the source cell. The format of the target
cell is a local matter for that cell. Your statement that "the
sheets' contents and formats are linked" is - sadly for your needs,
perhaps - not the case: the contents are but the formats are
not. The effect is exactly the same as if you had just entered a
formula of =Sheet1.A1 (or whatever) in the target cell. Indeed, if
you look in the Input line, you will see that this is exactly what
Calc has done.
What is perhaps confusing is that - as you say - you get the option
to paste the cell format when doing the Paste Special. But that is a
one-off chance to paste the format of the source cell at the time it
is pasted, not a chance to link the formatting of the two cells.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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