On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 07:37:25PM +0200, Jean Br?fort wrote: > Le mercredi 05 octobre 2005 ?? 13:21 -0400, Anthony DiSante a ??crit : > > When typing some text into a cell in a worksheet where a previous cell > > already contains the same text, that previous text automatically shows up > > in > > the new cell, so you just have to type the first few letters and then press > > Enter. > > > > However, if there are multiple previous cells containing similar but > > slightly different text, then the one that autocomplete chooses (which I > > think is just the most recent one) may not be the one you want for the new > > cell. As you type more, it will eventually choose the right one, but in MS > > Excel, you can simply press Tab after entering the first few characters, > > and > > it'll scroll through all the matching cells so you can choose the right one > > without having to type out most of it. > > > > Is it possible to do the same thing in Gnumeric? If so, how? (Tab doesn't > > do it.) > > It is probably not possible at present. Please file a bug report, > (severity = enhancement).
My preference at this point would be to ditch the excel compatible autocompletion in favour of a more firefox-ish dropdown approach. _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
