Issue 29950 - bug in merging cells makes spreadsheeting terrible
Summary: bug in merging cells makes spreadsheeting terrible
Status: ACCEPTED
Alias: None
Product: Calc
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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URL: http://www.math.u-szeged.hu/~kovzol/l...
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Reported: 2004-06-07 20:38 UTC by kovzol
Modified: 2017-05-20 11:13 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Merged cells with colored backgrounds in many worksheets (9.37 KB, application/vnd.sun.xml.calc)
2004-06-07 20:39 UTC, kovzol 		no flags Details
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Description kovzol 2004-06-07 20:38:09 UTC 
I work with lots of merged cells (formatted with colored backgrounds) and many 
worksheets. On inserting new cells into the spreadsheet, the merged cells may 
behave strange. Sometimes empty merged cells appear on a worksheet, and if I 
click onto an empty merged cell, it will become non-merged, but most of the 
other "normal" merged cells on this worksheet will loose their merged properties 
--- they become "sick"! In fact, they become non-merged, but OOo thinks they are 
merged. If I remove merging from the "sick" cells and make them merged again, I 
can continue my work --- for a whille. Then other empty merged cells may appear 
and they can generate new "sick" merged cells. I saved my work on the URL one 
can see above, but closing and reloading the file, the empty merged cells 
disappear and one can continue his/her work. (This is also a workaround for 
handling the problem.)
Comment 1 kovzol 2004-06-07 20:39:34 UTC 
Created attachment 15721 [details]
Merged cells with colored backgrounds in many worksheets
Comment 2 frank 2004-06-08 09:26:51 UTC 
Hi,

I'm sorry to tell you, but I can not reproduce your problem with the given
information.

Please give a step by step description on how to reproduce. You may press
CTRL+SHIFT+R for a screen refresh if the problem occurs. We never heard from
merged cells that have been de-merged without user action.

Frank
Comment 3 kovzol 2004-06-08 14:43:25 UTC 
Dear Frank, I'm amazed with this speed of answerring. Great! :-)

So, I'm trying to reproduce something:

1) Load the file levelezők2.sxc.
2) Click onto Worksheet2 (L09_03_04).
3) Click onto the merged cells in H3:I5.
4) Press CTRL-C.
5) Click onto Worksheet3 (L09_10_11).
6) Go to cell F2.
7) Press SHIFT-Insert. Now there should be an error message, but there isn't 
any. There are two overlapping blocks of merged cells which should be forbidden.
8) Press SHIFT-Delete. Now the G3:G4 cells are merged, and in addition, G4 is a 
single cell, too. This should be also forbidden.

Currently I'm unable to reproduce that fatal bug I found yesterday, but probably 
this may start you to find something strange bug in the code.

Regards, Zoltan
Comment 4 frank 2004-06-09 09:04:57 UTC 
Hi Niklas,

strange things are going on in this case. If possible a fix for OOo2.0 will be
preffered.

Frank
Comment 5 niklas.nebel 2004-06-10 12:47:23 UTC 
accepting.
Comment 6 kpalagin 2008-11-15 11:32:17 UTC 
Problem in step 7 still seems to be there.
Comment 7 Marcus 2017-05-20 11:13:12 UTC 
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".