[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 141839] Non-adjacent table rows with unequal column widths snap to same width when adjusted

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141839

--- Comment #7 from S. <sb56637 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #6)
> I think the feature itself is desirable - how else would you join individual
> cells into a column? The question is likely the other way around and you
> want to split a column aka change the width of one single cell. Is this
> correct, S?

Hello, thanks for the reply. I was trying to reproduce a complex table from a
physical form, and I ended up ruining it because I simply went cell by cell,
merging/splitting cels and/or resizing the column width as needed, and I only
use the row directly above it as a reference. But I didn't notice that at some
point it had automatically snapped to cell width with another one that was many
rows above it, which was wrong and didn't allow the text to fit. Sorry it's
hard to explain. But I eventually saved the document and closed it and then
re-opened it, and I realized that the widths of the cells in the first rows had
been changed by the width of other cells many rows farther down, and I would
have had to delete a bunch of information typed into each of those cells in
order to merge them and split them again so that the width is independent.

So, I would say that this feature is not desirable or should at least be an
option that is disabled by default. Because it only applies to complex tables
with very precise levels of individual cell formatting, and if the user went
through so much deliberate effort to merge/split/resize cell widths (s)he
probably doesn't want them to ever be linked anymore.

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