https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169913
--- Comment #1 from R. Grafe <[email protected]> --- Additional information in glance: The main reason for this ancient option in MS Word is to avoid unintended, accidentally deleting of datas especially in large documents, that are changed frequently. This happens fast if the writer has selected text and then is distracted by someone or something and after that presses a key, maybe also unintended, accidentally. There are endless possible failure situations, that cannot be described her, even human failures. On the other side nobody needs really "typing replaces selected text", deleting text and inserting new text is just as simple, but much more secure and better in many ways. MS knows this since the beginning and I think, Word Perfect had the same features in the past. But today, I know no textwriter besides MS Word with this configuration option, incomprehensible. Instead of optimizing LO as a real MS Word competitor, there happens - nothing. And "Typing replaces selected text" is the much bigger failure problem than drag&drop in the link above. What's overwritten is gone, what's only removed per drag&drop you can find again in most cases. Quotation from here 2018 by "PlsdontmakemebuyMS" https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/why-there-are-no-options-like-in-ms-word-to-disable-drag-drop-and-typing-replaces-selected-text/5361 "What’s worse is the bizarre responses attempts to get answers about it generate from OO forum users and the like." MS is very pleased from such an attitude, believe me. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
