Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 15532
Ability to select multiple columns/rows in table without dragging
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
At the moment it is not possible to select multiple columns/rows in a table (writer) without dragging which is not an option in large tables. 1. Select column: At the moment, either right-click > column > select, or dragging. Proposition: Click just below or just above the column to be selected. For multiple columns hold down CTRL (only selecting those clicked) or SHIFT (from current to next click). 2. Select row: Same as above. 3. Select table and deleting selection: At the moment CTRL-A selects all the content, or one has to place the cursor in the line above the table and drag into the first row, which selects the whole table. Proposition: Click at just outside a table's corner to select the whole table, both structure and content. The latter is especially useful, if there are different keys for different kind of deleting, which is not part of this issue and will be filed in a different one. I will add a comment with the refering issue-number.
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Reassigned to BH
The Writer table needs the ability for multiselection of cells (for cell content it works) to ease i.e. quick formatting of several cells. If that is possible, the possibility to multiselect columns and rows at once could be cosidered too. BH->AMA: Please give approval for this evaluated OO.o 2.0 flagged issue. If you confirm with the target OO.o 2.0, then please keep it on your owner (or the owner of the concerning developer) for implementation. In case you want this issue for 'OOo Later', then please reset the target milestone. If you decline the issue finally, please set the resolution to 'Wontfix' (but do not close). In case of 'OOo Later' or 'Wontfix' please reset it on Bettina's owner. Thank you.
Even it's a nice feature, the effort is very high. At the moment I don't see a chance to get it implemented for OOo2.0.
Actually it's a standard feature. Every other wordprocessing software I know can do this.
This could be a duplicate of Issue 10256 or, at least, depends on Issue 10256.
reassigning,setting keywords
*** Issue 41179 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
I don't understand why this issue is so neglected. It seems so intuitive and standard to be able to do this. It would greatly simplify and speed up working with tables. There are several methods for selecting in OO Writer: - Ctrl/Shift + mouse (only works for text) - Shift+F8 (add mode, only works for text) - Right-click -> Select row/column (can only select one) Ctrl/Shift is of course the most intuitive, but if you could make any of those methods available for table components, please... And to emphasize the original reporters original report: It's not even possible to select multiple table rows spanning more than one page by dragging. (!)
This needs to be fixed. How can this languish for so long? This seems like rudimentary functionality.