https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147293
Bug ID: 147293
Summary: UI improvement to prevent accidental MODIFICATION of
MULTIPLE selected sheets
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 7.1.5.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: Windows (All)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Calc
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Some might not call my problem a bug, but a known way of working with the UI.
However I consider it a dangerous side-effect of a provided feature.
The first time I encountered the utility of selecting multiple sheets, it was
in connection with exporting a document as PDF, and is very useful for getting
defined print ranges from several sheets into the same PDF document. After
doing this I then continued editing one of the sheets, and later discovered, to
my horror, that I had been modifying multiple sheets. Now, even though I am
aware of this behavior, I still find myself forgetting to deselect all but one
sheet after exporting.
I can think of several possible ways to reduce this risk:
1) warn that multiple sheets are selected by changing the little gray bar
underlining selected sheets to bright red (maybe even flashing) when multiple
sheets are selected.
2) provide a global preference to prevent modifications in multiply selected
sheets.
3) augment the menu for export as PDF by providing a sheet list where the user
can select which sheets to export (perhaps even in which order).
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