Re: [libreoffice-users] Moving and copying table rows

Hi :)
It might be a good idea to post a bug-report against LO
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport 
LibreOffice devs probably prioritise LO bugs and seem to be able to work more effectively than in 
other projects.  The Go-OO team are one of the core parts of TDF.  
Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Sat, 5/11/11, Stuart Simon <stuart.sa@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Stuart Simon <stuart.sa@gmail.com>
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Moving and copying table rows
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Date: Saturday, 5 November, 2011, 7:45
> Dear LibreOffice Community:
> First of all, thank you so much for opening the gates to
> improve the
> open-source office suite to far greater an extent than
> OpenOffice.org or
> even Go-OO could ever do. Forgive me if I am posting in the
> wrong place,
> but I believe that somebody will be able to finally solve a
> problem with
> Writer that has persisted through all versions of OOo and
> LibreOffice until
> now, and for just as long has been the default behavior on
> many word
> processors, including Microsoft Word and AbiWord.The
> problem is basically
> that table rows are not deleted when using the Edit -- Cut
> command, nor are
> they added when clicking Edit -- Paste. I suggest that
> people read Mike
> Freeman's original description of the problem, which is
> issue #35570 on the
> bug tracker, and test it out on the scenario I have
> provided on the self
> same bug report. Also check out related OOo bug #13645 on
> Apache.
>
> Two workarounds and when they do not work:
>
>    1. Select rows to cut using Table --
> Select -- Rows, Edit -- Cut, place
>    cursor in position before place where you
> want to paste rows, Table --
>    Insert -- Rows, How many? Number of rows
> you have cut, select After, click
>    OK, select newly inserted rows using
> Table -- Select -- Rows, Edit --
>    Paste. This method does not work for
> people who are not good at counting,
>    especially double-counting rows split
> across pages.
>    2. Place cursor after the last character
> in the last cell of the
>    rightmost column before the first row of
> data you want to paste, click
>    Table -- Split Table, place cursor after
> last character you want to cut,
>    select Split Table, select new paragraph
> containing newly split rows, Edit
>    -- Cut, place cursor after last character
> before paste position, click
>    Table -- Split Table, move cursor outside
> table at new split point, click
>    Edit -- Paste. This method will result in
> a table that is still split from
>    the main table on at least one side, and
> it will be very difficult (but not
>    impossible) to delete the paragraph
> breaks to rejoin the tables.
>
> I have tried everything possible to make actual developers
> aware of this
> issue. This message is my last resort. I hope that I can
> find somebody who
> would be willing to create a patch for this.
> Stuart Simon
> stuart.sa@gmail.com
>
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