Bug 101121 - Formatting a merged cell with Merge and Center does a split operation
Summary: Formatting a merged cell with Merge and Center does a split operation
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
5.0.6.3 release
Hardware: All All
: medium minor
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Blocks: Calc-Merge-Split
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Reported: 2016-07-25 18:21 UTC by Heinrich Hartl
Modified: 2026-01-13 08:48 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Attachments
test case and instructions for reproduction (12.87 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet)
2016-07-25 18:21 UTC, Heinrich Hartl
Details
CALC - bug 101121 - merged cells in v25_8_4_2 (83.03 KB, image/png)
2026-01-13 08:48 UTC, BDF
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Description Heinrich Hartl 2016-07-25 18:21:07 UTC
Created attachment 126405 [details]
test case and instructions for reproduction

a merged cell should not be merged again (see manual). Unfortunately Format / Merge Cells / Merge and Center Cells is not made unavailable and greyed for a merged cell. If that command option is chosen it does split the cell...
Comment 1 Buovjaga 2016-08-01 19:11:03 UTC
Reproduced with test case.

Arch Linux 64-bit, KDE Plasma 5
Version: 5.3.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: c1b665fcdacd4141137f1e369527e2c0d94513ae
CPU Threads: 8; OS Version: Linux 4.6; UI Render: default; 
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); Calc: group
Built on July 26th 2016
Comment 2 Heinrich Hartl 2018-02-15 11:58:49 UTC
Comment on attachment 126405 [details]
test case and instructions for reproduction

I tested Bug-xxx_Merge-and-Center_does-split.ods again with
Version: 5.3.7.2 (x64)
Build-ID: 6b8ed514a9f8b44d37a1b96673cbbdd077e24059
CPU-Threads: 4; BS-Version: Windows 6.1; UI-Render: Standard; Layout-Engine: neu; 
Gebietsschema: de-DE (de_DE); Calc: group

The misbehaviour still exists
Comment 3 Buovjaga 2018-02-15 12:39:20 UTC
It's good that you re-test, but version 6.0.1 would have been more appropriate.
Comment 4 Xavier Van Wijmeersch 2018-02-15 18:42:00 UTC
still reproduced with

Version: 6.1.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 89e9f4984d0dfbc2b69a04e59abc1a3a5d69a0c1
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 4.14; UI render: default; VCL: kde4; 
Locale: nl-BE (en_US.UTF-8); Calc: group
fresh homebuild
Comment 5 QA Administrators 2019-02-16 03:42:34 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 6 Heinrich Hartl 2019-02-16 15:05:10 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 Heinrich Hartl 2019-02-20 11:50:31 UTC Comment hidden (no-value)
Comment 8 Timur 2020-11-09 09:19:23 UTC
Problem here is that "Merge and Center" is available at all, as in bug 116513.
Comment 9 QA Administrators 2022-11-10 04:02:20 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 10 QA Administrators 2024-11-11 03:12:52 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 11 BDF 2026-01-13 08:48:10 UTC
Created attachment 205028 [details]
CALC - bug 101121 - merged cells in v25_8_4_2

No repo for me.

In the test file the option to merge and center the files still exists (blue mark in attached file), but it's because the same button does also split the cells. Therefore I would expect it to be clickable.

The menu entry is not labled as such (merge + split), but the UI button says so on hover (in the german version it shows a pretty long text)

LibreOffice:
- Version: 25.8.4.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
- Build ID: 290daaa01b999472f0c7a3890eb6a550fd74c6df
- CPU threads: 12; OS: Linux 6.14; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
- Locale: de-AT (de_AT.UTF-8); UI: de-DE
- Flatpak
- Calc: threaded

OS info:
- Operating System: KDE neon User Edition
- KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.4
- KDE Frameworks Version: 6.22.0
- Qt Version: 6.10.1
- Kernel Version: 6.14.0-37-generic (64-bit)
- Graphics Platform: Wayland