Issue 3560 - In Calc defined print ranges/areas do not get copied (carried over) if one creates a copy of a sheet using the sheet copy function, not the clipboard. In Excel copying sheets includes copying set print areas. Apparently the same happens with defined heade
Summary: In Calc defined print ranges/areas do not get copied (carried over) if one cr...
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Calc
Classification: Application
Component: printing (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.0.1
Hardware: All All
: P4 Trivial with 15 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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Keywords: ms_interoperability, rfe_eval_ok, usability
: 8984 22079 93706 (view as issue list)
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Blocks: 15522
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Reported: 2002-03-19 05:53 UTC by josh
Modified: 2015-06-24 15:13 UTC (History)
16 users (show)

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Issue Type: FEATURE
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duplicate any speadsheet deosn't copy print aeras (356.61 KB, application/vnd.sun.xml.calc)
2007-09-27 07:22 UTC, awacks
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Description josh 2002-03-19 05:53:05 UTC
Steps to re-create problem:

1. Create a worksheet.
2. Define a custom print range for the worksheet.
3. Copy the worksheet, either to the end of the same workbook, or to another 
workbook.  
4. The custom pring range will not copy, and will have to be re-defined.
Comment 1 frank 2002-03-19 11:19:16 UTC
Hi Falko,

I think there are pro's and contra's for such an feature. Please have
look.

GFrank
Comment 2 josh 2002-10-28 21:05:24 UTC
Falko -

I have verified that this is still an issue in 1.0.1.

-Josh
Comment 3 prgmgr 2002-12-04 03:49:34 UTC
*** Issue 8984 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 4 falko.tesch 2003-10-15 14:08:37 UTC
I disagree. Its quite dangerous to plain copy the print range!
What if it overrides already existing print ranges? What if the user
does not recognize this feature and prints aout 1000s of pages instead
of an expected few?
BTW, our competitors do not allow define print range once a sheet
multiselection is active. 
Comment 5 falko.tesch 2003-10-15 14:08:50 UTC
closed
Comment 6 josh 2003-10-15 17:25:24 UTC
Falko, 
 
Obviously, it's your design decision whether or not to copy ranges between sheets.  
However, you are quite mistaken when you say that our "competitors" do not do this. 
 
For one thing, I think you're not looking at my "steps to reproduce" and are getting 
confused with copying cells between existing worksheets and copying whole 
worksheets to new. 
 
In MS Excel, if I create a worksheet with a print range which is a subset of the sheet, 
and then copy that sheet to a new worksheet in the same workbook, the print range 
comes with it.   In 1.0.3 it does not; I have not tested 1.1. 
 
I would argue strongly that this feature, in fact, is intuitive and what the user 
expects, and contrary to your assertion the lack of copying print ranges is far more 
likely to result in my printing 100's of pages than the failure to copy. 
 
Reject this issue if you like, but please do it for the right reasons. 
 
-Josh Berkus 
Comment 7 falko.tesch 2003-10-16 11:10:48 UTC
When copying cells with added print range vias clipboard retain the
attached print area and copy it with the content.
Comment 8 falko.tesch 2003-10-16 11:11:01 UTC
started
Comment 9 josh 2003-10-16 17:00:09 UTC
Falko, 
 
I'm glad that you're looking at this again.  However, I feel we're still not 
communicating, quite.  It's possible that you understand me, and I don't understand 
you, but I think we should be absolutely clear: 
 
1) When copying groups of cells from one existing worksheet to another existing 
worksheet, print ranges should not copy. 
 
2) When copying an entire worksheet to a new sheet in the workbook or to another 
workbook, all print ranges should copy. 
 
Thus I don't think this should involve the clipboard at all, just the Edit --> Sheet --> 
Move/Copy menu command. 
 
Sorry to make this so tiresome, but I'd rather not waste your time implementing the 
wrong feature! 
 
-Josh 
Comment 10 frank 2003-11-04 10:12:31 UTC
*** Issue 22079 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 11 hwoarang 2003-12-04 18:48:47 UTC
I would like to say that content of header or footer is not copied 
too.. (Format -> Page -> Header/Footer -> Edit)

Is tiring to write all content again...

Thanx

Hwoarang
Comment 12 erwin.tenhumberg 2004-11-09 15:32:42 UTC
enhanced summary, set keywords and reassigned issue according to RFE process
Comment 13 kyoshida 2005-02-07 16:49:01 UTC
Adding myself to CC.  I too think that the print range of a worksheet should get
copied with the sheet.
Comment 14 brperry_cma 2005-08-10 15:30:54 UTC
This is a very important feature for our Company.  We are an oil & gas
exploration company and use spreadsheets to track daily costs and activities at
a well site. 

We would create a blank sheet formated in a specific way and then create a new
sheet/tab for each day in a project.  This can make up to 100 versions of it
within the spreadsheet.

It is most annoying to have to reset the print area on each new copy.  This
should just be an option we can select. That way those that want to do it can
and those that don't want it are happy too.
Comment 15 brperry_cma 2005-08-10 15:35:07 UTC
Also, this still hasn't been fixed on the 1.9+ beta version.
Comment 16 awacks 2007-09-27 07:22:48 UTC
Created attachment 48541 [details]
duplicate any speadsheet deosn't copy print aeras
Comment 17 awacks 2007-09-27 07:23:15 UTC
I have same problem with the 2.2.1 (Windows XP SP2), but sometimes it's work, 
sometimes it doesn't and I don't know why
Comment 18 jalvarez 2007-11-30 01:38:52 UTC
Same thing on Calc in OO.org 2.3. I'd like to have this issue resolved too.
Comment 19 frank.loehmann 2009-01-27 10:56:00 UTC
Set target and cc myself.
Comment 20 gnubee40 2009-05-08 20:12:05 UTC
Hi!

I use version 3.01, and the issue mentioned here persists. Also I would like to
note that not only print areas, but ALL page settings are lost (Landscape,
Alignment of tables, headers, footers, etc.), when copying a sheet to a new
location.
This is really a major drawback compared to MS Excel.
I suggest implementing checkboxes in the move/copy sheet Dialogue Box, thus
giving the option to chose, whether or not print areas and page settings should
copy over or not.

Regards
Comment 21 Stefan Weigel 2009-09-23 08:45:35 UTC
Not duplicate, but somehow related is issue #105170 "Document doesn't contain
print range of the underlying template"
Comment 22 oc 2009-11-02 08:30:01 UTC
*** Issue 93706 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 23 bobodod 2010-02-17 15:29:52 UTC
It's time to fix this.  I have a client who I've successfully transitioned to
OpenOffice.org from MS Office who is thinking of turning back because her print
ranges don't copy when she makes a copy of a worksheet.
Comment 24 bobthehamster 2010-02-17 17:04:25 UTC
After converting the production control department at my company to use
OpenOffice, this is one of the bugs they cited as severely interrupting their
workflow. A couple months later I had to switch them back to MS office :(
Comment 25 kyoshida 2010-02-17 17:22:24 UTC
then surely some of you can afford to provide a development resource to come up
with a patch?
Comment 26 bobthehamster 2010-02-17 17:30:13 UTC
Yes, actually, I could ask my employer for some money to use as a bug bounty for
this one. I'm not sure how much I could get, but I could ask. What is the best
way to proceed? Is there someone here who is willing to write the code? If so,
what resources would you need?
Comment 27 bobodod 2010-02-17 17:41:55 UTC
kohai, bobthehamster:

No, no programming skills here, though I'd love to learn if just to support my
fav projects.
Comment 28 kyoshida 2010-02-17 18:15:32 UTC
I don't know about bug bounty because I haven't seen it work effectively with
this project.  The best way to get a bug fixed (that I can think of) is to buy
support from one of the support providers, and get it fixed through the support
channel.  That way your bug will get higher priority.

For example, Sun, Novell, Red Hat (and probably others) all provide support for
OOo.  I work for Novell, and I too fix our customer bugs with higher priority.
Comment 29 hwe 2010-08-10 09:59:09 UTC
In my company we are intended to use Open Office. But if we cannot print copied 
sheets, we will not make the switch from Excel.
Comment 30 Lance 2015-06-24 15:13:40 UTC
Most of my worksheets have 'Print Entire Sheet'. I copy them as a template and modify the information. When I go to print, most of the time I forget to set the print range since Excel automatically does this. Why not have each sheet have it's own print range? Why not have the print range set to 'Print Entire Sheet' when a sheet is copied?