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title="UNCONFIRMED - Make Select text by clicking in Margins MSO compliant"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113932">113932</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>Make Select text by clicking in Margins MSO compliant
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<th>Product</th>
<td>LibreOffice
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>All
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>UNCONFIRMED
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>enhancement
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>Writer
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>magalaan@gmail.com
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<pre>Created <span class=""><a href="http://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=137852" name="attach_137852" title="example file for line and row selection">attachment 137852</a> <a href="http://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=137852&action=edit" title="example file for line and row selection">[details]</a></span>
example file for line and row selection
Make Select text by clicking in Margins MSO compliant
In MS Word you have following behavior when clicking in the left margin:
mouse cursor changes to an arrow in the margin, indicating selection tool
1 click = select line
2 click = select paragraph
3 click = select all
in LO (now using 5.4.2.2)
Mouse cursor remains a text entry symbol (I)
1 click = moves cursor to beginning of the line
2 click = unpredictable, selects a word, few words or a paragraph
3 click = unpredictable, mostly undo selection
When it comes to tables there is another annoying difference:
In Writer the mouse cursor changes to an arrow in front of a table row and you
can then select the row by clicking, or several rows by dragging down. But you
only have 1mm of room to do that, where in word you can use the whole margin.
Outside of 1mm zone it moves cursor to left cell and dragging down selects
cells in first column, which is strange behavior.
Another difference is that in a MS Word table you can select a cell by clicking
in the top-left-corner of the cell (mouse cursor shows arrow). LO does not have
this.
Suggested change:
Make writer MS Word compliant in selecting lines and table rows in the left
margin. The MSO way is clearly superior and more visible.
The most important part of this is the one-click-selection of lines. I use
one-click selection a lot</pre>
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