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Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Full Text Issue Listing |
| Summary: | Line selecting in Write | ||
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| Product: | Writer | Reporter: | Unknown <non-migrated> |
| Component: | ui | Assignee: | AOO issues mailing list <issues> |
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | Trivial | ||
| Priority: | P3 | CC: | charles.fmj, issues, jian.li, kpalagin, Mathias_Bauer, rail_ooo, zhangxiaofei.ooo |
| Version: | OOo 1.0.1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Windows XP | ||
| Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Latest Confirmation in: | --- |
| Developer Difficulty: | --- | ||
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Description
Unknown
2003-01-11 09:33:11 UTC
changing component/QA contact to Writer changing ownership to user experience for evaluation Set to "NEW" Thankyou for submitting this request. Voted 2. *** Issue 59419 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** It seems to be the same as issue 13587. FI: 2 clicks in the margin select the first word. 3 clicks in the margin select the whole paragraph. I, like the original poster, would like to have the option to line-select as I do with MS Word. Not *instead* of the multiple clicks one can use in Writer, but "in addition to". There is one annoyance I've found when trying to select lots of text with the mouse. Lets see if I can describe this clearly. I've found that, sometimes, selecting multiple lines by "click and drag," and it's so much text that I force Writer to scroll down the page, there is a "rubber-band" effect. That is, Writer will spring the selection back to the previous screen where I started selecting, and keeps "rubberbanding" the selection no matter how many times I try. Using shift-arrow down/page down works without problem though. I was going to say "always" instead of "sometimes," since this is one of the things that force me to go back to Word. However, I decided to make one last "reality check" before posting, and Writer "made me look bad" by allowing me to do screen-scroling click-drag-selects without rubberbanding *sigh*... so I don't know if this is an easily reproducible issue, or if its something that only happens to me. I wanted to give a heads-up about this just in case anyway. *** Issue 34366 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** . This issue would be important for me as well. As an ancient OOo user (since the years of StarOffice), I like a lot of features of OOo but there are some still missing. One of them is the topic of this issue: the selcting on the margin similarly to MSWord. I have to write a course book for economist students about office tools. Last year I wrote it about MSOffice because in Hungary (where I live) this is much more common tool compared to OOo. Now I have the agreement with the leaders of the university to emphasize in the next year that there is an other solution, OOo, which is equivalent to MSO (or is better) and is free. I am sad to say but in some cases I have to wite into the cousre book: "sorry, it does not work in OOo". This is the click/double click/triple click on the left margin which selects the line/paragraph/document. This would be a very nice-to-have feature in OOo too, so I give my vote to this issue. Regards, Csongor Halmai Bettina, could you, please, if possible, assign this enhancement to appropriate developer? Thanks a lot for your consideration. Mathias, sorry to be pushy here, but could you, please, at least, take this RFE out of dark corner so that some developer could pick it for implementation? Mathias, sorry to be pushy here, but could you, please, at least, take this RFE out of dark corner so that some developer could pick it for implementation? Thanks a lot. WBR, KP. I don't know what you are expecting. We don't have a developer ATM to work on that - for everybody else this issue is at least visible by its votes. Changing the owner to e.g. me wouldn't change anything. Or what else is it you are asking for? The issue #12489 looks like a similar/duplicate one to me. I voted for this issue and am hoping that it will be implemented soon. I used to use this MS Word feature so often that I am still expecting it unconsciously in Writer, even after using Writer for a year now. *** Issue 12489 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** *** Issue 82527 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements". So many years have past since first request and the feature isn't still implemented though I see it simple to implement and super useful. Voted. I am really disappointed that more than seven (7!) years was not enough for this issue to go a bit forward. I vote for this but I do not hope it helps. Dozens of votes are still in from the users. What else can I do personally in order to suggest developers to work on this issue? It seems this is not a too difficult job although maybe I am wrong because I am an outsider. Sorry if this is the case. |