Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 37809
Copy-and-insert for writer cells/columns/rows
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:41:13 UTC
I'm trying to kick the MS Word habit and something that would be reaally useful is Word's copy-and-insert functionality for table cells, columns and rows. basically, copy a selection as normal and then right click in a cell and have an option worded something "insert copied cells". This inserts the cells moving other cells down or right as necessary.
reassigned to BH.
This issue also gained quite a few "unofficial votes" under 13645 moving rows and columns in a table (don't overwrite but move target cells) I agree that it should be possible to copy-paste or move rows within a table, preserving the format of those rows. It happens so often that one finds out he wants row number 9 with a very specific format (number of cells, type and size of font etc.) to be somewhere else in the table, e.g. in front of row number 3. According to how Write currently works, this would mean I have to create a new row from scratch in the exact same format in front of row 3 and then paste the contents of row 9. That sure is not user friendly. Ideally, it should not need more than a cut and paste command.
This issue is about inserting copied cells, not moving cells. I think 13645 is a similar, but distinct issue.
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".