Issue 61341

Summary:	Provide column-select mode (as in Acrobat Reader).
Product:	Writer	Reporter:	raindrops <na1000>
Component:	editing	Assignee:	michael.ruess
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	issues@sw <issues>
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	issues
Version:	OOo 2.0.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description raindrops 2006-01-30 09:31:36 UTC

Provide column-select mode (as in Acrobat Reader).

Sometimes, in a scanned document, it is convenient to pick a block of text and
move it to a new location.
For example, the reader  has not sensed that the original text actually has an
embedded frame or a column.
The user can visually see that some part of the text actually does not belong to
the main body of the text, but he has to separate it by laborious cut-and-paste
method, line-by-line.
Further, as he picks the text, the remaining text starts wraping around. This
makes further editing difficult.

If block-sel;ection is available, he can cut out the text in one swift
operation, and let the surrounding text wrap without any problem.

This feature is also very useful to select and delete a block of text.

Comment 1 michael.ruess 2006-01-30 10:33:36 UTC

See issue 1596.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 1596 ***

Comment 2 michael.ruess 2006-01-30 10:36:31 UTC

Closing duplicate.