[Libreoffice] [PATCH] make STR_MERGE_NOTEMPTY more understandable

Maxime de Roucy mderoucy at linagora.com
Thu Nov 10 04:32:39 PST 2011


> I agree with the wording of the question, but "will only retain" to me
> sounds as if the content of other cells would be lost, which isn't the
> case, it's just not displayed and hidden in the merged cells. We also
> should avoid terms like upper-left, as in a right-to-left environment
it
> would be the top right cell instead.

> The content remains in the hidden cells and can still be 
> used in formulas. That is a used feature, when you will show a different 
> content to the user than you need for calculation.

I didn't know that.. sorry, now I understand.

Then what do you think about :
Should the contents of all cells be concatenated and moved into the
first cell ?
When clicking 'No' the contents of the hidden cells will remains and can
still be used in formulas.

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Maxime de Roucy
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