Bug 48425 - FORMATTING: text in large vertical merged cells sinks below bottom border
Summary: FORMATTING: text in large vertical merged cells sinks below bottom border
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.4.5 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Windows (All)
: medium normal
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Reported: 2012-04-07 12:29 UTC by jmichaud02478
Modified: 2014-09-20 21:31 UTC (History)
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screenshot showing decreasing bottom text spacing with increasing number of merged cells (33.29 KB, image/png)
2012-04-20 08:55 UTC, Nino
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Description jmichaud02478 2012-04-07 12:29:43 UTC
After merging vertical cells, text in the aggregate cell appears as if it had a *negative* bottom border spacing.  This misalignment is greater as the number of merged cells increases.  With a Default or Bottom vertical alignment, any text in such a large number of merged cells disappears below the bottom border.

To reproduce:

- select, say, 4 cells vertically
- select Format -> Merge Cells -> Merge Cells
- enter text in the merged cell
- ensure that vertical alignment is set to Default or Bottom
- examine spacing to bottom border of text

Repeat, merging a larger number of vertical cells (say, 12).

Visibility of text may be achieved by choosing a vertical alignment of Top or Center, or setting a large spacing to bottom border.

Doesn't seem to affect top, left, or right alignments.  Also, there doesn't appear to be a similar effect for horizontally merged cells.
Comment 1 Nino 2012-04-20 08:52:58 UTC
confirmed in 3.5.3.1 (Linux/32) but inconsistent: after testing a while, the effect disappeared. Scrolling down + up again (so that the cells disappear from visible window area and reappear again) changed the spacing in an unpredictable way. Maybe a rendering problem?

@ jmichaud02478@gmail.com : could you add screenshot to show how big the effect is?
Comment 2 Nino 2012-04-20 08:55:07 UTC
Created attachment 60398 [details]
screenshot showing decreasing bottom text spacing with increasing number of merged cells
Comment 3 A (Andy) 2014-09-20 21:21:16 UTC
for me this is not reproducible with LO 4.3.1.2 (Win 8.1)

Can you or anybody else still reproduce this issue with the latest release of LO?
Comment 4 Nino 2014-09-20 21:31:15 UTC
@Andi: yupp, seems to also work in 4.3.1.2 Linux/RPM/x64 ==> changing to WFM :-)