Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 34278
Copy cell, row or column visual
Last modified: 2014-08-26 18:11:44 UTC
I think it would be great if there was a little more visual feedback when copying a selection. In that other program, when you copy a cell(s), row(s) or column(s), an animated dashed line is around the selection. It's a very nice visual feedback to let the end user know what they are copying incase they accidentally didn't select what they had wanted and didn't notice. The animated dashed line stays there until the user types in another cell or performs any other action other than selecting and pasting. Note that just clicking on a pull-down menu doesn't make that "hightlight" go away, they have to actually pick a selection out of a menu to do that. Kevin
Hi Bettina, one for you. Frank
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".
Created attachment 72461
This is a highly useful feature included in spreadsheets since the 90's. During Copy and Move operations, the source cells of other Open Source spreadsheets such as Gnumeric or LibreOffice Calc show an animated dashed line. Please consider adding this Feature to Apache OpenOffice Calc.
In my opinion it is a useless feature. Excel (versions that I know) uses its own clipboard. If one cut an area, this area can only be inserted once, because after inserting the clipboard content is deleted. If you copy something into clipboard and type something before inserting the copied content, the clipboard content is deleted. AOO uses the system clipboard at all operating systems. Therefore copy/cut & paste in AOO Calc works like copy/cut and paste in all other cases and applications.