Issue 12861 - Selecting text from the margins could be optimized ala Word
Summary: Selecting text from the margins could be optimized ala Word
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1 Beta
Hardware: PC Windows 98
: P5 (lowest) Trivial with 4 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: bettina.haberer
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Keywords: oooqa
: 12862 12864 (view as issue list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2003-03-31 08:42 UTC by Unknown
Modified: 2005-06-14 02:03 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description Unknown 2003-03-31 08:42:59 UTC 
A handy feature when selecting text in Word is that by clicking on the margins, 
a user can easily select blocks of text.  The behavior in response to single:
double:triple clicking in Word is to select a point:word:paragraph from within 
the text, or a line:paragraph:all from the left margin.  This is a feature I use 
quite often in Word, and I'd love to see a conveniant way to select whole 
paragraphs and to "select all" in what is in general a no-compromise word 
processor.  




Thanks and Good Luck, hunwalla
Comment 1 lohmaier 2003-03-31 20:15:08 UTC 
*** Issue 12862 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 2 lohmaier 2003-03-31 20:15:43 UTC 
*** Issue 12864 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 3 h.ilter 2003-04-01 13:15:14 UTC 
Reassigned to BH
Comment 4 eric.savary 2003-04-16 15:34:49 UTC 
Set to "NEW"
Comment 5 dsmilek 2003-11-07 00:08:44 UTC 
I agree that text selection using the mouse could be improved, 
especially the triple left click which should select an entire 
paragraph instead of just a line of text. As a writer I often need 
to move whole paragraphs of text as I edit a document, sometimes it 
would be helpful to have a way of selecting a sentence, almost never 
is selecting a line useful. 

The way MS Word implements this feature is as follows:
With mouse pointer within a paragraph:
-Single click positions cursor at the desired location
-Double click selects the word
-Triple click selects an entire paragraph.

With mouse pointer in the margin:
-Single click selects an entire line
-Double click selects the entire paragraph
-Triple click = select all

I mention this not because OOo Writer needs to be a me-too 
application but because ease of moving text for editing is key to 
being productive as a writer and hence this is an essential 
enhancement. 

This has also been mentioned in issue# 18076
Comment 6 ingenstans 2004-10-14 16:05:46 UTC 
This is fixed in m_56 and above, and will be in OO 2.0
Comment 7 peschtra 2005-06-14 02:03:37 UTC 
Fixed in 2.0