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Merging

You can have Spread automatically merge cells between columns or between rows if the cells have the same value based on the policy that you set.

Cell Merging

The component can automatically combine cells that have the same contents. You might want to do this, for example, when bound to a database, as shown in the figure below where the cells in the Year column merge where the year value is the same, as with 1995 and 2003.

Merging is an automatic feature. You tell the component which columns and rows allow cells to be combined automatically, and any cells within that set that have the same contents are combined for you. You can have the cells in the specified row or column combine the cells automatically, or only combine them if the cells to their left (in columns) or above them (in rows) are merged.



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