Issue 35496 - behaviour of Mouse pointer in and around selections
Summary: behaviour of Mouse pointer in and around selections
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: 680m56
Hardware: PC Windows 2000
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Reported: 2004-10-14 07:44 UTC by aparan
Modified: 2017-04-09 14:44 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Table cell selection (113.10 KB, image/png)
2014-10-12 04:01 UTC, Misha Manocha
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Description aparan 2004-10-14 07:44:36 UTC
Open OO.o writer

Make a selection of text. Move the mouse pointer away from this selection.  Now
it should change from Insertion to Pointing mode.  By this way the user can know
that  the selection could be dragged.  

Within a table there should be some method to select the whole cell [like in MS
Office].  Change the mousepointer to a tilted black one similar to the row
selection pointer.  

In writer, it is now possible to make row selctions but right click from  the
same point [without moving into the selection] takes away the selection, which
it should not.  Further, the context menu could be simplified while in selection
of table/cell/rows.
Comment 1 michael.ruess 2004-10-14 08:30:15 UTC
reassigned to BH.
Comment 2 bettina.haberer 2010-05-21 15:15:09 UTC
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on
my owner to the owner "requirements". 
Comment 3 Rainer Bielefeld 2014-04-25 04:59:17 UTC
Has never been confirmed, I am not sure whether I understand what reporter ants
Comment 4 Rainer Bielefeld 2014-04-25 04:59:26 UTC
wants!
Comment 5 Misha Manocha 2014-10-12 03:57:23 UTC
I was able successfully replicated the bug in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1. on Mac OS X version 10.9.5. The following steps were taken for replication – 
1.	Open a new document in Apache OpenOffice Writer.
2.	Create a table with a desired number of columns and rows.
3.	Type some text in one of the cells and select it. 
4.	Now, as you can see in the screenshot attached, as the cursor is moved away from the selection, the cursor is still in ‘Edit Text mode’.
5.	Now, in the screenshot(Table cell selection) attached, it can be seen that that whole cell is not selected. 

I did some follow up test, by clicking control+A, to select the cell, and I figured that it selects the whole table, instead of a specific cell. Moreover if you select a cell, it just selects the text. If you try to copy and then paste, instead of pasting the cell, it just pastes the text. While, if you try to do the same in MS Office, you’ll able to select the cell and then paste the whole cell.  This failure is not a bug; I would rather call it an enhancement. I believe that if this feature is added, it would be helpful for user and make their experience of working with tables a little easy.
Comment 6 Misha Manocha 2014-10-12 04:01:11 UTC
Created attachment 84057 [details]
Table cell selection
Comment 7 Dima 2017-04-09 14:25:06 UTC
(Dmitriy Burdin, 09/04/2017)

Initial description consists of 3 issues: 
 1. Cursor type when dragging text.
 2. Selection of a cell within a table. 
 3. Context menu in context of a table.

Alternative set of replication steps for issue 1:
Comment 8 Dima 2017-04-09 14:44:52 UTC
(Dmitriy Burdin, 09/04/2017)

Initial description consists of 3 issues: 
 1. Cursor type when dragging selected text.
 2. Selection of a cell within a table. 
 3. Context menu in context of a table.

Alternative set of replication steps for issue 1:
OS: Windows 7
Version: Apache OpenOffice 4.2.0 (AOO420m1(Build:9800)  -  Rev. 1785175)
 1. Create new Writer document.
 2. Create a table of any size (e.g. 3x3)
 3. Input some text in any cell of a table. 
 4. Select the whole text. 
 5. Hover over the selected text.

Actual result: cursor is in Insertion mode. 
Expected result: cursor is in Pointing mode from which user can know that the selection can be dragged.
Note: this behaviour is not only for text within a table but also within a whole document.

Issue 2: 
User states that it would be better to have a method of selecting the single cell within a table. Method proposed is the same as in MS Word application. It says that a sell within a table can be selected by hovering over the left side of a cell (cursor becomes tilted and black) and left clicking. 

Issue 3: 
Simplification of a context menu of a table is mentioned but no actual complications/problems are described.