Issue 82506

Summary:	CTRL+A selection should be kept after a replace all operation
Product:	Calc	Reporter:	kim_lyon <kim.lyon>
Component:	editing	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	bluedzins, issues
Version:	OOo 2.3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description kim_lyon 2007-10-11 12:36:21 UTC

After Replacing Cell Name Portions Replacement Selection Disappears .
Procedure :-
1) Select the work sheet -> ^A .
2) Carry out a replacement operation .
3) Observe that the selection - inverse text depiction - is no longer present .
current solution ( should not be required ) :-
4) Close Replacement Dialog .
5) Reselect - ^A .
6) Open Replacement Dialog .

Comment 1 frank 2007-10-11 14:54:08 UTC

Sorry, but I don't understand what you're doing here. Please describe more
precisely and give a step by step description on how to reproduce.

Frank

Comment 2 kim_lyon 2007-10-11 14:56:08 UTC

Area selected by ^A operation is no longer selected after the replacement
operation - whole operation has to be repeated .

Comment 3 frank 2007-10-11 15:09:03 UTC

Not a defect but maybe an enhancement request.

BTW such an selection with CTRL+A and than a replace all operation is nonsense
as the replace all functionality searches the whole sheet if not set to current
selection only.

Frank

Comment 4 frank 2007-10-11 15:10:29 UTC

Changed Summary to reflect the problem.

Comment 5 ftack 2008-03-12 09:44:19 UTC

This issue is currently represented as a triviality. However, it is more
significant than that. May I advise to change the title one more time to 

"User selection should be kept after a replace all operation"

because indeed the issue is that Calc just changes the users' selection after
"Replace all". Obviously, when the user wants to act on a selection of cells, it
is not up to the application to change the users selection.

This is obviously related to the other issue, where a user has to select a
hidden option (hidden under "more") to have the spreadsheet effectively work on
his selection (issue 35093).

Comment 6 macias 2008-08-04 21:28:31 UTC

It is not Windows issue only but all platforms, not Calc, but Writer as well 
and this is not a wish report but a bug -- compare this to even simple editors 
like Kate. Replace means "replace", it does not mean "replace and do some 
other random stuff" --> thus, a defect. 

And the defect is still valid (dev3.0 m28).