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title="UNCONFIRMED - "Remove Border" checkbox adds confusion, but no functionality"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108255">108255</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>"Remove Border" checkbox adds confusion, but no functionality
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<th>Product</th>
<td>LibreOffice
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<th>Version</th>
<td>5.3.3.2 release
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>x86 (IA32)
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<th>OS</th>
<td>Windows (All)
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<th>Status</th>
<td>UNCONFIRMED
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>Calc
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>timbacontent@gmail.com
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<pre>Description:
"Remove Border" checkbox adds confusion, but no functionality.
Steps to Reproduce:
0. open attached spreadsheet
1. select D2 and choose Format Cells/Borders
observe: the left border is shown
2. click twice to remove the border (note that the first click goes to a grey
border – which is a useless click as far as I can see – what's the difference
between that and the black border display?)
3. click to check the Remove Border checkbox and okay the dialog
observe: the border is gone – as desired
4. undo to restore the border and repeat steps 2 & 3 but this time, do NOT
check the Remove Border checkbox
observe: same result – the border is removed – the state of the Remove Border
checkbox is irrelevant – wasted clicks, confusing learning curve
5. undo to restore the border
6. select Cell C2 and enter the Format Cells/Border dialog
observe: the right border is not displayed and the Remove Border checkbox is
greyed out and cannot be made active
Conclusion: Calc is grossly inferior to Excel in terms of user-friendly control
of borders and to add insult to injury, it adds a whole useless layer with this
checkbox that serves only to confuse. To add further insult, this checkbox has
been renamed since 5.2, teasing the user with the idea that this long-standing
flaw has been addressed.
Actual Results:
(see "observe" above)
Expected Results:
Calc should not be less powerful or harder to use than Excel.
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
Additional Info:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML,
like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36</pre>
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