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Re: With spreadsheets that have multiple tables, is merging cells sometime okay?

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From: Colin Osterhout
Date: Feb 13, 2020 10:36AM


Can you provide a concrete example?

Colin

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 7:22 AM TX Knight < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Good Morning,
>
> If you have multiple distinct tables on an Excel worksheet, is it okay to
> merge the cells in those tables with less columns than other tables?
>
> So for example, let's say you have a worksheet with two tables.
>
>
> - Table Alpha has 5 columns that span columns A through E:
> - Table Beta has 4 columns.
>
> For Beta, is it okay to merge columns D & E? Or should Beta simple stop in
> column D and not use column E?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> > > > >


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