https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127759
--- Comment #8 from László Németh <nemeth@numbertext.org> ---
(In reply to Gerhard Weydt from comment #7)
How do you know that this is the user's intention? He might as well want to
move the content of the row or column to a differnt position and fill the
row or column with a new content.
Unfortunately, there is no simple way to cut and move table rows in Writer, but
that's the user's intention, too, see
https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/158283/how-to-cutmove-rows-in-writer-tables/
or https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=81990 (from 2007).
In addition, the behaviour is consistent with Calc.
Calc is not perfect, but there is a (hidden) 1-step way to move rows or
selected cells using drag & drop with Alt:
1. Press Shift-Space to select a row.
2. Drag & drop the selected row (by clicking on one of the cells of the
selection). Before releasing the mouse button, press Alt and release mouse
button.
In Writer, the easiest is a 3-step way (insert an empty row, copy, delete the
original):
1. Insert an empty row by the appropriate icon (or Alt-Insert and Up/Down
arrow).
2. Select the row by clicking before the table row.
3. Drag & drop the selected content to the empty row.
4. Delete the row by the appropriate icon (or Alt-Delete and Up or Down).
The suggested enhancement won't remove Copy/Paste.
As you can see in the history of LibreOffice, fixing similar usability bugs was
very important, for example https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=10256
"allow single click selection of table cells, rows, and columns" from 2002 was
implemented in OpenOffice.org 2 in 2004 based on the specification
http://specs.openoffice.org/writer/selection_enhancement/Text-table_selection_enhancement.sxw
So the task is not only cutting the whole line easily, but its simple
insertion, too, ie. moving the line. We could extend also the Move Up/Down
functions mentioned in
https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/158283/how-to-cutmove-rows-in-writer-tables/,
so important to simplify table handling in Writer.
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