Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: table - automatically copy text

At 09:09 01/02/2012 -0500, William Drescher wrote:
> On 2012-02-01 11:19, Paul Whitehurst wrote:
> > I'm using tables in swriter that have text in them. I would like to 
> > insert text and have the text copied to other cells automatically. 
> > I know I can enter numbers and insert a formula that copies the 
> > number from one cell into another. The same formula doesn't seem to 
> > work with text.
>
> I entered abcd into cell a1 and then in cell b1 entered =A1 and the 
> text was copied without error to cell b1.  Is that what you are looking for ?

Probably not!  What you are describing is clearly the use of cells of 
a spreadsheet (Calc) document; I think we all know you can do this in 
a spreadsheet.  The questioner is asking instead about automatically 
copying text between the cells of a table in a text (Writer) document.

Brian Barker


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