Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 60286
ease Move/Copy cells via dragging
Last modified: 2008-12-11 19:34:55 UTC
Today, you can drag an individual cell by (1) click on the cell; (2) SHIFT+click on the cell to mark it as a range (3) release SHIFT (4) click and drag the cell the a another cell to move or CTRL+click and drag the cell the a another cell to copy. I prefer to reduce the number of actions as such: One the user starts dragging from within the selected cell while holding SHIFT or CRTL, the move resp copy of a cell must work. Alternative or in addition: Differentiation between a range selection or move can be determined based on the place where the user starts dragging: i.e. range selection when he start in the middle of the cell; move (with or without SHIFT)or copy (while holding CTRL) when he start at the border of the cell, i.e. when it look like the user realy grap the bold box around the cell and drag it to a new place. (btw: this is how it works in MS-xls)
according to http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/workflowcharts/ RFE_issues_by_QA.sxd I reassign this issue to requirements and set the status to New core wish: Once the user starts dragging from within the selected cell while holding SHIFT or CRTL, the move or copy of a cell should begin
It is a big lack of usability, that it is not possible to move a cell by just clicking, holding down, draging and dropping. This should be possible without using the keyboard and without any additional clicks or mouse-moves. IMO the best way is to allow the user to move a cell by grabbing it at the bold frame around it.
This is one of the many, many duplicates of issue #10865. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 10865 ***
closing duplicate.