https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158288
--- Comment #8 from Aron Budea <aron.bu...@gmail.com> --- Let's see if my understanding if correct: - When you merge A4 to C4, there's no A4 cell anymore, only A4:C4 range, - A range is a rectangular area of cells, - When you select cells using Shift, or hold the left mouse button and drag, you select a range. This implies once the cells are merged in the example, there is no A2:A5 range anymore, and the smallest range including A2:A5 (and consequently A4:C4) is A2:C5. I'm not arguing there shouldn't be a way to select the least amount of cells+ranges that come with selection of cells, it just won't be a range anymore, and it should be a separate way apart from range selection. (In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #7) > This seems like a bug to me, because it denies us the expressive potential > of the selection. We can choose to select a 3x5 region covering the merged > cell; and we can (try to) select 1x5 region, in one of 3 ways (left, middle, > right). Why should all four user behaviors result in the same thing, while > almost no mouse-down selection behavior can produce a selection of > a1,a2,a3,merged-a4-through-c4,a5 ? I see no argument in this comment why the selection you're looking for shouldn't be done in a different way, perhaps would be good to think about that first, instead of fragmenting the behavior by adding a compatibility flag. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.