Andreas- My original testing may have been before I discovered View-Properties. However, for my "UPDATE" email (inserted below), I first set Autocomplete ON in both Edit-Preferences-Tools and View-Properties, and then launched a new page to do my testing.
Looks like some installation-specific issues. Thanks for your feedback. -Tom -----Original Message----- [THIS "UPDATE" INSERTED FOR CONTINUITY] From: Thomas P. Medill Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 6:13 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: UPDATE ON: Autocomplete and DropDown box issues Results of further experimentation with Autocomplete: - Autocomplete sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. All sorts of seemingly unrelated actions cause it to stop working, sometimes for good, sometimes for short periods. I read everything I could find in the bug reports and manuals; some of it confirms my problem. - Does not work on "referenced" values, but only on cells with the actual text string. - Match is case sensitive (some of my earlier attempts failed because of this). - Immediately after trying something that doesn't work (like a non-matching case), next try at autocomplete will fail. Try once more, and it works. Thanks, Tom -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andreas Guelzow Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 3:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Autocomplete and DropDown box issues On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 19:59 +0000, Thomas P. Medill wrote: > Recently installed Gnumeric Spreadsheet 1.10.16 under Win7/64 and have a > couple issues: > > - Autocomplete does not work. I have it checked under > Edit-Preferences-Tools, but it acts as though it is turned off. I am > assuming that it should work same as in Excel, namely, that it looks > for matches above in same column. You cannot turn Autocomplete on by using Edit-Preferences-Tools. That setting only affects whether new views of a document have autocomplete turned on. It does not affect existing views. For an existing view you need to use View->ViewProperties > > - I created a drop down box using Data-Validate-"In a list". I can > open the box using Alt-DownArrow, but I cannot figure out how to move > down my list using the keyboard. It works when navigated with a mouse, > but I need a keyboard method. In Excel, you navigate the list using > the up and down arrows and then hit Enter on desired item. I can navigate in it using the he up and down arrows and then hit Enter on desired item. Of course I am not using a recent version of Gnumeric on Linux. Andreas -- Andreas Guelzow <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
