Richard Detwiler wrote:
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On Wednesday, October 04, 2006 11:36 AM [GMT+1=CET], Terry
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Niklas Nebel wrote:
Kirill S. Palagin wrote:
But the way you describe is not what is in fix?
I am interested in knowing original intention of developers.
Issue 3875 isn't about drag&drop. It's about selecting several
non-adjacent cells, which previously wasn't possible by just
ctrl-clicking.
Niklas
Greetings, Niklas.
Possibly an unfair question. Could you comment on the possibility of
a simple drag for a single cell - should an issue be filed, of course?
Hmmm.
If you click in a cell (i.e. you select that cell) and drag
immediately, OOo assumes you are intending to "grow" the selection
into a rectangular grid. How is OOo supposed to divine that you
intended to move the cell instead?
Alternatively, if selecting a cell followed immediately by dragging
it causes the cell to move, then how would you select a rectangular
grid?
Harold Fuchs
London, England
The way it works in Excel, I believe, is that you click once, release
the mouse button, then click again to drag and drop a single cell.
This is identical to how you drag and drop a range in Calc; you select
the range, but you can't drag and drop it until you release the mouse
button and then click on it again.
I've never used Excel. I discovered Lotus 123 many years before Excel
existed and stayed with it until migrating to Linux.
In Lotus, single cells, cell ranges, whole rows and columns could all be
moved by click and drag. There was no difficulty distinguishing what
was required for that and what was required merely to make a selection
with the mouse.
It's a hit and miss affair with me to move a single cell with the mouse
in Calc, so much so that I don't attempt to use it most of the time. So
it's cut then paste.
In Lotus, dragging with the mouse combined with the Control key achieved
a copy rather than a move.
Both copy and move using the mouse were extremely simple and fast
manoeuvres.
My question was unfair but I do wonder what insuperable obstacles exist
to prevent similar simplicity of operation in Calc.
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