Sorting merged cells??

[Abyssian]

Is there a trick to sorting information in a table when
many of the columns and rows have cells that are merged?
I always get the following error "This operation requires
the merged cells to be identically sized."

Not sure if that's enough information to describle the
problem, but my table is 8 columns wide, each column is a
different width, but all the rows are the same height.
Not sure if that helps or not. But I merged cells to get
the right width for each column.

Thanks

 

[Myrna Larson]

The message means just what it says. If you merged 3 cells in row 2 but only 2 in row 4, you
won't be able to sort it.

Merging cells often creates more problems than it solves. Can you achieve the look you want by
just adjusting column widths?

 

[Abyssian]

The sheet has gotten rather complicated over its
devolpment period and there is too much layout editing
already done in order to redo the whole thing by resizing
the columns.

So, I suspect I just am not going to be able to do what I
want. Thanks though.