On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Highlight the cells you want to join, and in the table dialog (table > settings tab) click the checkbox for multicolumn. The default format > for the merged cell should be centered.
Paul, That's what I tried. I can highlight only one cell, not two cells. I thought that I should be able to do both, but ... I cannot. > This requires some LaTeX trickery. See, for instance, > http://latex.s-v-p.de/table/Examples/examples.phtml#multirow, which does > something similar by nesting a table within a table. Seems to me it can > also be done by embedding something like a parbox (?) in a cell. I think > it can also be done by setting the column width to a fixed value (in the > table dialog). Better to ask a LaTeX guru. OK. > That or boosting the font size or sticking some invisible struts in > (more LaTeX ERT). Thanks, Rich -- Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) <http://www.appl-ecosys.com>