Deleting rows: minor bug/feature? Plus workaround

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Deleting rows: minor bug/feature? Plus workaround

Post by laup »

If one has created a table and then merged all cells in one of its rows, that degenerate row cannot always be deleted: the delete-cells tool is gray.

The workaround is to split the row (vertically or horizontally), after which deletion works again.

Hardly a big problem, but a curiosity that might go a list of trivial fixes.
I don't see anything in the manual warning about it.

Note: this glitch appears with some sequences of operations, but not others. Given a table, select a row and merge it; the delete tool is still active immediately after the merge; however, if you click outside the degenerate row or click within it to enter text, the tool will go gray.

The issue seems to be whether Mellel "sees" a row or column, or instead sees what it thinks of as a single cell. If you create a "table" with a single cell, that cell also cannot be deleted using the delete-row tool. That might actually be a more confusing situation for a user to find himself in.
Paul
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