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\begin_layout Standard
-You can mark multiple cells of one row as a multicolumn cell using the check
- box
+You can mark multiple cells of one row/column as a multicolumn/row cell
+ using the check box
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Multicolumn
+\family default
+ or
+\family sans
+Multirow
\family default
.
This will merge the cells to
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one
\emph default
- cell, spread over more than one column.
+ cell, spread over more than one column/row.
Multicolumn cells are treated as own rows, so that the alignment, width,
and border settings affect only the multicolumn cell.
Here's an example table with a multicolumn cell in the first row and one
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\begin_layout Standard
-At the moment LyX doesn't support multirow cells.
- Adept users can declare special LaTeX-arguments for the table.
+Adept users can declare special LaTeX-arguments for the table.
They are necessary for special table formatting, like for multirow cells,
explained in the tables section of the
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