Hi, Good question, As I think of it, the problem is solved with a 'merging' of cells of course, in the sense that the cell containing the data is expanded to fill the selected area and the other cells are hidden. Well, that's what it looks like anyway. I really should test this feature with excel too, like I said, I rarely use 'merging' except for the centering across columns feature (if it is implemented in the same way as pure 'merging'). The point that I wanted to make is that there are a lot of problems for the moment with this feature in KSpread, and that having this feature comes at a cost, in performance, in look and feel. I have already put up a webpage http://users.pandora.be/taiji/KSpread/ (it's still empty for the moment) >From now on I'll make snapshots as I test and put them up as some sort of log to aid discussion about this and other issues. Regards Marc --- David Faure wrote: > On Sunday 18 April 2004 19:42, Marc Heyvaert wrote: > > I've been a user of spreadsheets for 20 years and > I > > really never used merged cells at all. I know I > > shouldn't generalize, but perhaps someone could > > explain to me what the advantage is compared to > > > > 1. centering text across several columns + > > I'm confused - what difference do you make between > merged cells > and being able to center text across several columns > (which effectively > means that the text isn't contained in a single > cell, but in several "merged" cells)? > > (This is more a user question than a developer > question, since I'm not > really a KSpread developer; apologies if the > question is stupid). > > -- > David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech > to work on KDE, > Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice > (http://www.koffice.org). > _______________________________________________ > koffice-devel mailing list > koffice-devel@mail.kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢ http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash _______________________________________________ koffice-devel mailing list koffice-devel@mail.kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel