[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 133299] New: [Feature request] Option to set the default anchor mode for images

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133299

            Bug ID: 133299
           Summary: [Feature request] Option to set the default anchor
                    mode for images
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 6.4.1.2 release
          Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
                OS: Windows (All)
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: Calc
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: pox_ox2 at yahoo.com

In current version, the anchor of a newly pasted image is fixed to "To Page". I
want to change that default behaviour to "anchor To Cell" in the Options menu,
with a new entry like: "default anchor mode when insert/paste/create image".
For other types of objects(graphics,textboxes,videos etc.), I'm not sure yet of
whether to share the same settings is better or not, so suggest to make each of
them independently configurable (to avoid unexpected behaviour).
Also, when several images are "grouped" (object group, not the table group),
the anchor mode of this new object should also honor this default setting.

Reason: For me, I always and only need "anchor To Cell". I often paste a lot of
images. Forgetting to change even just one image from "To Page" to "To Cell"
results in a disaster because whenever I resize or insert or delete some
rows/columns or cells, the image will become orphaned on a totally different
place from where I originally pasted it. This often happens somewhere far away
from the visible window, found only a long time after, impossible to find when
it had happened, which backup file is correct. So it is not solvable with the
usual undo feature. And worse is that even if I found such an out-of-place
image, I don't know where that image belonged to, so my whole work is instantly
trashed. I personally never needed "anchor To Page", but some other people
might, so the best solution is to make the default settings configurable.
Another annoying bug/feature of current version is that even if I had anchored
all images to cells, if I group some of them, the new object goes back to
"anchor To Page", which is very easily forgotten to re-correct.
Excel already has the ability for user to set default paste anchor mode to "To
Cell".

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