Hi Leonard, On Thursday, 2007-05-17 22:55:33 +0300, Leonard Mada wrote:
> A.) 'CTRL+A' => > 1.) in MS Excel: selects A1:?P?37 (selection as drawn seems to extend > beyond shown boundaries) > 2.) in OOo Calc: selects A1:Z68 (selection seems NOT to extend beyond > these boundaries) Both observations are not correct. Both applications indeed mark the entire sheet A1:IV65536, which can be verified by scrolling to the right/bottom, either using the scroll bars or mouse scrolling functions. > B.) paste => > 1.) In MS Excel, this paste operation filled all cells in the range > A1:IV65536 (in a matter of < 10 s). > 2.) OOo Calc => Crash Memory exhaustion terminates the application. Calc would need a better concept for identical mass data. > *However, does ANY user need exactly the A1:IV65536 range*??? Yes, if you want row heights / column widths / cell attributes to apply to an entire sheet. Probably not for pasting some "tech journalists' test data". Eike -- OOo/SO Calc core developer. Number formatter stricken i18n transpositionizer. OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't send personal mail to this [EMAIL PROTECTED] account, which I use for mailing lists only and don't read from outside Sun. Thanks. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]