Issue 57121 - Problem with column widths after merging cells in a table
Summary: Problem with column widths after merging cells in a table
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: formatting (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.0
Hardware: PC (x86_64) Windows XP
: P3 Trivial with 2 votes (vote)
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Reported: 2005-11-01 12:28 UTC by teledesign
Modified: 2017-05-20 11:21 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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example of problem with merged cells and column widths (8.62 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2005-11-01 12:30 UTC, teledesign 		no flags Details
Another testcase (8.00 KB, application/vnd.sun.xml.writer)
2006-10-07 21:26 UTC, troodon 		no flags Details
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Description teledesign 2005-11-01 12:28:40 UTC 
I created a new table in any empty document with 20 rows and nine columns.

I merged rows 3,4 & 5, and 6,7 & 8 together in the top row

I merged rows 1 & 2 in the 1st column, and again in the 2nd column and again in
the 9th column.

I entered some title text

I then tried to set my column widths to my requirements - which are :

(excluding the top row)

Column 1 + 2 = 3.5cm

Columns 3 thru 8 1.8cm

Column 9 - the rest.

However by the time I had got to column 3, the column widths seemed to be badly
and irretrievably broken. The only way to change a column width appear to be to
change it row by individual row. It appears to be impossible to align columns 8
and 9 across the rows. Everything seems broken and any attempts to improve
things just makes matters worse and worse.

Having got into this mess once, I wiped my work and started again - and rapidly
got into exactly the same mess. 

SO I decided to report the bug and see if I could recreate it again. I could.

If I can find out how I will attach the resulting file. Otherwise you can email
me for it

andrew@teledesign.co.uk
Comment 1 teledesign 2005-11-01 12:30:37 UTC 
Created attachment 31077 [details]
example of problem with merged cells and column widths
Comment 2 michael.ruess 2005-11-16 18:18:53 UTC 
MRU->OS: open attached document and set the values for the column width as described
Column 1 + 2 = 3.5cm
Columns 3 thru 8 1.8cm
Column 9 - the rest

will not be applied correctly to the table.
Comment 3 Oliver Specht 2006-06-20 13:52:27 UTC 
Target adjusted
Comment 4 troodon 2006-10-07 21:25:13 UTC 
I'm attaching another test case. Open it, select all columns and then apply the
column uniform width option. See what happens at columns 6&7.

Tested with OOo 2.0.4 RC3
Comment 5 troodon 2006-10-07 21:26:09 UTC 
Created attachment 39629 [details]
Another testcase
Comment 6 john_lindgren 2008-12-10 13:03:59 UTC 
The problem still exists in OOO300m9.

1. Create a new text document.
2. Insert a 3 column by 3 row table.
3. Merge the 1st and 2nd columns of the 2nd row.
4. Split the now-2nd cell of the 2nd row vertically into 2.
5. Select the entire 1st row and change the column widths to 1", 1", 4.93".
   This works correctly.
6. Now try to do the same with the 2nd row.  Instead of 1", 1", 4.93", you get
   2", 0.31", 4.62".
7. Set the column widths a second time.  This time it works.
Comment 7 longcalcunog 2010-11-10 16:11:12 UTC 
Created attachment 73107
Comment 8 Marcus 2017-05-20 11:21:51 UTC 
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".