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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Dec 2 22:37:59 +0000 2007 ------- Of course you can justify the existing behaviour, but it doesn't make it less unintuitive. In all other circumstances, in a word processor, image editor, or even a spreadsheet, whether it is an OpenOffice application or not, you can duplicate something with the following steps: *select the thing to be duplicated *copy *clicking the cursor elsewhere *paste Except when you try to duplicate a row in a table in Writer. No other steps are required to duplicate text, images, or cells in any other OpenOffice program, or indeed, any other program I can think of. Why should a row or column be any different? You can say it is the "correct" behaviour all you want, but it doesn't make OpenOffice.org any easier to use, and leaves a horrible kludge for users to work out. It's also painfully slow to have to find the "insert row" command every time you want to do it. You should note that I have not suggested a solution, just the problem. The solution may be to allow selection of a row or column in a way that is different to selection its cells, so that it is clear to the user and the application which behaviour is being used (cell or row/column based). When you do select cells, the current behaviour may make sense. When you select a row and copy it, it makes sense that the user wishes to have duplicate it if they paste it "between" two other rows. I wish I could recommend OpenOffice to more people, but little usability bugs that have not been ironed out at this late stage make me think that little development effort is going into making the basic GUI usable. I'd be happy to report other usability bugs if the attitude of developers isn't defensive. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
