Why group/ungroup is greyed out?

Hi Bob,

As far as I know, group/ungroup only applies to objects, text boxes and the like. I don't know what it would mean to group cells or a column.

I thnk the situation is simply fixed for you. Uncheck "wrap text in cell"

That should do it for you.

quinn

ps like the screenshot🙂

HI Bob,

Group and Ungroup apply to objects, not to cells.

Shapes, for example, are groupable objects. If you have two or more of these objects selected, Group will be active (black). If you have at least one grouped object selected, Ungroup will be active.

Cells may be merged or split using the buttons in the Merge and Split section of the Table Inspector.

Text will flow into empty cells, but not into merged cells, even if those are empty.

If the cells are then unmerged, text will again flow into the empty cells.

Regards,

Barry

Hi Quinn,

The wrap setting doesn't seem to be the issue in this case. If Wrap were turned on for the cell in which NO SCHOOL is truncated, I'd expect to see something like this:

Regards,

Barry

HI Bob,

I'd avoid merged and/or split cells wherever possible. They're seldom necessary, and they cause several problems. Just because the feature is available doesn't make it 'useful' or 'trouble-free.'

Regards,

Barry

"If I keep going with split eventually the words show up.

Looks like I have a lot of work to do splitting cells and deleting columns."

When I was checking out the response above, I selected all three cells in the group, then clicked merge. When unmerging them later, I selected the merged cell and clicked the same button (on the left), which now showed solid vertical and horizontal lines between images of four 'cells', and presented the message below when I hovered the mouse over the button.

Try that instead of the Split button. It may save some steps.

Regards,

Barry

Good move. Sometimes starting over is the best idea. 🙂

Thanks for the check mark (and the 'gold stars')

Regards,

Barry