Trouble with Table headers

[DelphaX]

Hi,

I'm currently trying to find a way to create "elaborate" table headers with OpenOffice Writer as in the example below :

[RGB]

If you first create the table with the default tools, then select the first row and finally split it in two (or more), the whole set of rows are considered as "headers", so they replicate themselves in every page. The problem is that you cannot merge the cells of the first row into only one cell, so, in order to obtain what you want, the only workaround I can think of is erase the lines between those cells, and write the title in the middle cell

[DelphaX]

I already tried that too, but then there's another problem : if the Table title is too long to fit in the cell's width, it wraps on the next line and I don't want that to happen. What's more, if the text wraps on the next line, only the cell containing the title changes height. The other cells on the "first row" don't change and it messes up the whole header.

[RGB]

There is another workaround: if you insert a text box from the draw tools, and anchor it to a paragraph in the first cell, you can change the dimension of it to fill the whole first row, and insert the text you want, with the format you want. Also, it repeat itself in every page.
For some reason, I can't do the same with frames, but text box could work, I hope.
Good luck

[cwchia]