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

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