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Tables Splitting Cells
DocumentID: 607598
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 1:32:29 PM

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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: If a customer sets up a 4-column, 6-row table and then goes into cell A1 and splits it into 3 columns, the lines are double lines. Anywhere else in the table the lines are single. If the user then goes into cell A2 and divides it into 4 columns it adjusts the columns A1, B1, and C1 and makes A1, and B1 as small as Cells A2, B2, C2, D2. The customer thinks it should not change the cell widths for cells A1, B1, and C1. Solutions: It is working properly. When a cell is split, the newly created cells have the same border as the original cell. Since A1 originally had a double left border, the new cells have a double left border. When a cell is split, the whole column is split, and cells in the column that are not split become joined cells. Thus, if your table is defined with 4 cells, A1 and B1 in the top two, and A2, B2 in the bottom two cells, and you split A1 into two, then your table becomes a matrix of 6 cells with A1, B1, and C1 across the top and A2, B2, C2 in the bottom. The cell which originally was B2 is now C2, and A2 even though you didn't touch it, is a joined cell consisting of A2 and B2. If you do a split of a joined cell, WP uses as many existing cell borders as possible, even if some were previously invisible because of joining.

In the above example, if WP didn't do this, column A would become 12 columns instead of just 4. If the customer really wants 4 evenly divided cells where A2 was, and 3 evenly divided cells where A1 was, then he should divide column A into 12 cells and join the wanted cells back together.

See memo 12410J for more information.

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