https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93295
Bug ID: 93295
Summary: UI: Use chart wizard to also modify charts
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Calc
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: magal...@gmail.com
PROPOSAL:
1 - use chart wizard also to modify existing charts
2 - run chart wizard after selecting a chart and clicking the chart-button
3 - run chart wizard after double clicking on a unselected chart
4 - run show edit-mode (as usual) after double clicking on a selected chart
WHY:
# 1 & 2 :
The chart wizard is not only helpful to quickly create charts. It is also a
great help to quickly modify them.
This MS Office compliant. In MS Excel you can select a chart and click on the
chart-button to modify that chart.
# 3 & 4:
Double clicking on the chart should restart the wizard again for modification.
The chart-edit-mode automatically comes available when you start the wizard.
But by showing the wizard first, it becomes much easier for the common user,
which is 95% of Office users. The wizard is self-explaining, while the edit
mode demands some study. Most of the time people do not have the time to study
things, they need to get a job done.
The edit mode is a unfamiliar environment. I could not find the chart-type
button, because I mistook "chart-area" for a label. So I kept creating a new
chart from scratch with the wizard, to change the type. This even happens to an
office professional like me, because in a hurry I do not have time to figure
things out.
It is only now I decided to propose this change that I took the time to really
get to know the edit-mode. It is well done, once you get to know it. But again
Office applications are often used under time pressure. And then a wizard is a
life saver because you can create and modify a chart with almost no thinking.
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