Bug 169605 - Automated merging of cells in Writer table
Summary: Automated merging of cells in Writer table
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
unspecified
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: needsUXEval
Depends on:
Blocks: Writer-Tables-Enhancements
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Reported: 2025-11-22 00:49 UTC by Danat
Modified: 2025-11-24 11:22 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Video (8.52 MB, video/mp4)
2025-11-22 00:49 UTC, Danat
Details
File in the video (6.71 KB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document)
2025-11-22 00:49 UTC, Danat
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Description Danat 2025-11-22 00:49:08 UTC
Description:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1dvzHUKdAySrKUa1_voKavMHJc_7uEosf?usp=sharing

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Make a table of several columns
2.Merge cells in one of the columns
3.Add a row using the UI button

Actual Results:
It does not merge

Expected Results:
Merging according to the established pattern


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
In the video
Comment 1 Danat 2025-11-22 00:49:26 UTC
Created attachment 204188 [details]
Video
Comment 2 Danat 2025-11-22 00:49:54 UTC
Created attachment 204189 [details]
File in the video
Comment 3 Roman Kuznetsov 2025-11-23 16:43:07 UTC
I'm not sure myself how should it work.. 

From one side to expand a merged cell looks reasonable, but from another side I can want to insert a normal row... How Writer should understand the case?

Added UX-team
Comment 4 Danat 2025-11-23 17:12:27 UTC
(In reply to Roman Kuznetsov from comment #3)
> I'm not sure myself how should it work.. 
> 
> From one side to expand a merged cell looks reasonable, but from another
> side I can want to insert a normal row... How Writer should understand the
> case?
> 
> Added UX-team

Perhaps it could offer a choice between merging and not merging in a pop up window
Comment 5 Danat 2025-11-23 21:21:08 UTC
(In reply to Roman Kuznetsov from comment #3)
> I'm not sure myself how should it work.. 
> 
> From one side to expand a merged cell looks reasonable, but from another
> side I can want to insert a normal row... How Writer should understand the
> case?
> 
> Added UX-team

Maybe this could be a better solution 

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169640
Comment 6 Danat 2025-11-24 11:22:03 UTC
(In reply to Roman Kuznetsov from comment #3)
> I'm not sure myself how should it work.. 
> 
> From one side to expand a merged cell looks reasonable, but from another
> side I can want to insert a normal row... How Writer should understand the
> case?
> 
> Added UX-team

Or this https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169658