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Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Full Text Issue Listing |
| Summary: | Select visible cells only button | ||||||
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| Product: | Calc | Reporter: | mcanedo <mcanedo> | ||||
| Component: | editing | Assignee: | AOO issues mailing list <issues> | ||||
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | QA Contact: | |||||
| Severity: | Trivial | ||||||
| Priority: | P3 | CC: | gbpacheco, issues, kpalagin, mailinglists, skywalk | ||||
| Version: | 680m122 | Keywords: | usability | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | All | ||||||
| Issue Type: | FEATURE | Latest Confirmation in: | --- | ||||
| Developer Difficulty: | --- | ||||||
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Description
mcanedo
2005-08-10 18:09:31 UTC
Hi Miguel, please be more precise. I've checked it with manual hiden rows and columns and was not able to select these cell with the cursor or the mouse. Please describe step by step what you want to do. Thanks Frank Hi Frank: Excel has a button, wich certainly is not by default in the toolbars, but that can be added to any toolbar, it's called "Select Visible Cells". This button selects only the visible cells no matter ohow they have been hidden, then you can copy, delete, or whatever action, with those cells only. Thanks Miguel Created attachment 28671 [details]
Screenshot Showing button in excel
one for the requirements team *** Issue 67851 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** Additional information - the feature in Excel that selects only visible cells is called via Edit > Go To. Click Special. Click Visible Cells Only. Click OK. Dear developers please consider such feature as it would make certain tasks much easier. Simply selecting visible cells will not be enough. The ability to copy those visible cells, or cut them, or move them is what makes Select Visible useful. Currently the copy function cannot be used with multiple selections. For instance, a subtotal is done, the groups are collapsed so only the totals show, then Select Visible is used to select just the totals, then these are copied and pasted onto another sheet. The "OOo Later" target milestone has me worried that the weight of this feature is undervalued. If it had not been for the lack of this feature I would have trashed Excel long ago. The lack of this is all that's holding me back. Real world problems: Report Subtotaled from hundreds of values and your boss only cares about the totals. He wants them in an email. Subtotals of measurement collections need to be transferred to another sheet for further processing. Examples are from previous and current work experience. This feature is Highly essential. join , question very important *** Issue 26630 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** This previous commenter said it perfectly. "If it had not been for the lack of this feature I would have trashed Excel long ago. The lack of this is all that's holding me back." "Real world problems: Report Subtotaled from hundreds of values and your boss only cares about the totals. He wants them in an email." I need the visible data from subtotals!!! I need visible data from manually selected rows or columns. Please fix this so Excel can die! Confirming that this problem still exists. Let me offer a new reproducible example of this problem in v4.1.10. When you drag select only the cells which are currently visible (when some rows are hidden), choosing ⌘-C (Mac) copies ALL cells from the sheet to the clipboard, not only those that are visible. Either the app needs to select only those cells which are visible or add a separate button (like in Excel) to allow for selection of only those rows/columns which are currently visible as Miguel suggested in 2005. It's more intuitive to 'ignore' any cells which are hidden and select only visible cells, but a separate button like what is used in Excel would suffice. It's frustrating to select only the rows which are showing only to find that pasting the coped data has selected ALL rows from the sheet, not only those which are visible. |