Issue 5983 - Shift-Click will only increase the size of a selection
Summary: Shift-Click will only increase the size of a selection
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.0.0
Hardware: PC Windows 2000
: P3 Trivial with 2 votes (vote)
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Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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Keywords: oooqa
: 30009 69700 76585 94013 112904 (view as issue list)
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Reported: 2002-06-19 15:40 UTC by Unknown
Modified: 2013-06-19 20:00 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description Unknown 2002-06-19 15:40:51 UTC 
Select a block of text. Then attempt to reduce the size of the selection by 
holding shift and clicking within the already selected range. This should 
reduce the current selection to be from the cursor to where you clicked. At the 
moment it does nothing.
Comment 1 prgmgr 2002-07-14 17:38:40 UTC 
Thanks for posting Chuck.

I'm going to mark this as an enhancement feature request.


Duplicated on Win NT, OO 1.0

Inside Word 2000, the user is able to do what Chuck described.

Basically select a chunk of text.  If you hold down the Shift key and 
click on various parts of the selected text, you will resize your 
selection.
Comment 2 Unknown 2002-07-17 08:57:43 UTC 
Seems like a defect to me: every other Windows app behaves correctly. 
Even selections made inside OO dialogue boxes can be decreased this 
way.

But I'm sure there are bigger fish to fry at the mo'...
Comment 3 stefan.baltzer 2002-11-25 14:09:08 UTC 
I fully agree: 
This is indeed an intuitive behavior that OO.org lacks.

The workaround is to click outside the selection, hold the mouse
button pressed and "drag" the selection's end to the desired position.

I strongly advocate to integrate this. 
Reassigned to Christian.
Comment 4 christian.jansen 2003-03-24 07:54:49 UTC 
Reassiged to Bettina.
Comment 5 ace_dent 2008-05-16 02:40:04 UTC 
OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker - Feedback Request.

The Issue you raised has the status 'New' pending further action, but has not
been updated within the last 4 years. Please consider re-testing with one of the
latest versions of OOo, as the problem(s) may have already been addressed.
Either use the recent stable version: http://download.openoffice.org/index.html
or consider trying the new OOo 3 BETA (still in testing):
http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/
 
Please report back the outcome so this Issue may be Closed or Progressed as
necessary - otherwise it may be Resolved as Invalid in the future. You may also
wish to search for (and note) any duplicates of this Issue that may have
advanced further by checking the Issue Tracker:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/query.cgi
 
Many thanks,
Andrew
 
Cleaning-up and Closing old Issues as part of:
~ The Grand Bug Squash, pre v3 ~
http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/announcementbeta.html
Comment 6 michael.ruess 2008-09-18 10:50:15 UTC 
*** Issue 30009 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 7 michael.ruess 2008-09-18 10:54:16 UTC 
*** Issue 69700 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 8 michael.ruess 2008-09-18 10:59:43 UTC 
*** Issue 76585 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 9 michael.ruess 2008-09-18 11:08:54 UTC 
*** Issue 94013 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 10 bettina.haberer 2010-05-21 14:50:06 UTC 
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on
my owner to the owner "requirements".
Comment 11 eric.savary 2010-07-04 21:27:39 UTC 
*** Issue 112904 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 12 wyattbiker 2013-06-19 20:00:07 UTC 
This issue is a defect. Not an enhancement request. It has been pending since 2002. Actually Impress does it right. Weird