Vertical splitting and combining
Vertical splitting relies on showing/hiding the top and bottom borders of adjacent cells.
Let's start with a 4-cell table:
| Cell 1 |
Cell 2 |
| Cell 3 |
Cell 4 |
Figure 1
Think of each cell as having four borders, like this:
Figure 2
To avoid grid thickening, either the upper cell's floor or the lower cell's ceiling may be visible, but not both. (Occasionally you may notice a double thickness grid wall but this will disappear when you return to the report after moving to another node or closing the file, so is an artefact.)
| Cell 1 floor visible |
Cell 2 |
| Cell 3 ceiling hidden |
Cell 4 |
Figure 3
| Cell 1 floor hidden |
Cell 2 |
| Cell 3 ceiling visible |
Cell 4 |
Figure 4
| Cell 1 floor hidden |
Cell 2 |
| Cell 3 ceiling hidden |
Cell 4 |
Figure 5
Note the misalignment in the floors of Cells 1 and 2 in Figure 3 compared with Figure 4, due to different show/hide selections. If you notice this when creating your own tables, ensure that these parameters match across the whole row.
We have thus "combined" cells 1 and 3, so let's add some blank lines and rename the combination Cell 5:
Vertical splitting is essentially the reverse of this.