https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132026

--- Comment #13 from ady <[email protected]> ---
I am having some difficulty understanding the inconvenience/problem. I'll write
here a certain procedure, and I'd like to know what is exactly that I am
missing.

1. Select an area (or the whole spreadsheet) and format cells as text.
2. In the first cell, press the minus sign.
3. Press [ENTER]. The cell now contains a minus and the focus moved to the cell
below it.

* If instead of moving down, I want to move up, then step 3 would be to press
[SHIFT]+[ENTER].

* If instead of moving down, I want to move right, then step 3 would be to
press [TAB].

* If instead of moving down, I want to move left, then step 3 would be to press
[SHIFT]+[TAB].

* Instead of the minus sign, the same goes for the plus sign.

The only possible inconvenience here would be if the cells are not adjacent and
I want to go directly from one to the other without using [ENTER] or [TAB]. But
even in that case, I could just copy+paste.

So, for adjacent cells, the procedure is not complicated. Only for non-adjacent
cells there is some minimal extra work, or copy-paste can be used.

I am not seeing the use-case that is not overcome by [ENTER], [TAB] and [SHIFT]
keys instead of using the arrow keys. Perhaps these keys are not as comfortable
or as close to a numeric pad as the arrow keys. Is that it?

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