[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 33749] Inconsistencies in Help pages on Cell Merging and Splitting (unmerging) in Calc

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33749

--- Comment #27 from Ross Johnson <ross.johnson at homemail.com.au> ---
Proposal (relative to the current development version of LO):

1) Replace the entire "Format > Merge Cells" submenu with the single "Format >
Merge and Center Cells" button with all the same behaviour it has on the
Formatting Bar.
2) Replace the "Split Cells" button from the context menu of a selected merged
cell with the "Merge and Center Cells" button showing the current merge status,
as it does elsewhere.

Rationale:
The current behaviour of the "Merge and Center Cells" button on the Formatting
Bar is consistent with all other formatting buttons, eg, "Align Left" is still
"Align Left" (but shown activated) when the text is currently already left
aligned, and toggling it off reverts the alignment to a default alignment. It
behaves correctly and intuitively IMO.

The "Merge Cells" button in the "Format > Merge Cells" submenu should be
removed as it appears to do the same as "Merge and Center Cells", that is, when
it works correctly. It isn't helpful though as it has at least two problems: 1)
it is greyed out if a merged cell is selected, unlike "Merge and Centre Cells";
2) it becomes selectable when a range of cells is selected that includes a
merged cell, but won't perform the merge.

Removing both "Merge Cells" and "Split Cells" buttons from the Format > Merge
Cells submenu leaves one entry, the "Merge and Center Cells" button, which
should then be promoted to the top level menu.

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