[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 136199] LibreOffice Impress: unable to select cells in Table

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136199

Rafael Lima <rafael.palma.lima at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #12 from Rafael Lima <rafael.palma.lima at gmail.com> ---
Just as an update to this bug report, I'd like to say that the bug persists in
LO 7.1.1.2. Occasionally tables in Impress cannot be properly edited because
one can't select multiple cells.

One important thing that I noted is that this bug happens alongside another
bug, so I'll first explain this other problem. Suppose you add a text box in a
slide, then edit the text and deselect it. Later you select it, edit the text
again and press ESC. The expected behavior is to exit the edit mode and have
the Text Box selected. This is also expected for tables and other objects.

However, there's some workflow that breaks this ESC key behavior (I couldn't
figure out exactly the rule that breaks this). At some point, when you press
ESC, you exit the edit mode and the text box (or any other objects) get
deselected.

Whenever this bug starts to occur, table cells can no longer be selected. And
this is a 1 to 1 correlation in my experience.

Another weird consequence of this bug is that even if you restart LO (close all
of its applications and reopen), the ESC key bug persists. The only way around
it is to restart the computer, then the bug is gone (at least until it comes up
again).

I hope this helps pin down the root cause of this bug.

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