Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 125422
Selection of cells moves cursor and requires too much extra work in pasting
Last modified: 2014-08-13 08:53:33 UTC
Using a keyboard, when you select adjacent cells in a table in Writer or Impress or Calc, during selection the cursor position also moves. The cursor should not move during selection. The result is this: If I try to paste contents of 5 cells to a row immediately below, during selection the cursor moves 5 cells right. So, before pasting I need to move cursor left by 5 cells again. Instead, during selection the cursor should not move. After copying the content, user should be able to move the cursor just one cell down and paste the content or wherever user wants. When compared with MS-Office, it is too much extra work for a simple task. In fact, when you have large number of cells, it is virtually impossible to paste contents at correct location.