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title="UNCONFIRMED - Unnecessary dialog box when attempting to sort single-column (or row) data"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139019">139019</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>Unnecessary dialog box when attempting to sort single-column (or row) data
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<th>Product</th>
<td>LibreOffice
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<th>Version</th>
<td>6.2.8.2 release
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>All
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<th>OS</th>
<td>Linux (All)
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<th>Status</th>
<td>UNCONFIRMED
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>trivial
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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>oss@kirvesaxe.sange.fi
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<pre>Created <span class=""><a href="http://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=168274" name="attach_168274" title="Sorting column B or row 10 triggers dialog, but column L or row 13 does not">attachment 168274</a> <a href="http://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=168274&action=edit" title="Sorting column B or row 10 triggers dialog, but column L or row 13 does not">[details]</a></span>
Sorting column B or row 10 triggers dialog, but column L or row 13 does not
Whenever attempting to sort a single-column or single-row group of cells when
the corresponding cells in the next and previous column/row are not empty
cells, an annoying dialog box appears telling "there seems to be data on the
other cells too, would you like to expand your selection?"
While it is merely an annoyance, passable by a single click on the proper
button, when one needs to do several "small sortings" on the same sheet and
have to tell the software everytime that "no, choosing just these particular
cells and nothing outside them was not an accident but an intentional decision,
thank you", it starts to feel a real nuisance. Kinda like the feeling when an
animated paperclip thinks it knows better than me what I am trying to do ;)
I have also seen this dialog box in a same situation in an age-old version of
openoffice.org calc so I assume it has been originally made intentionally, but
is there an actual need for this dialog box? If not, I assume removing it
wouldn't be too hard. And if there is, would it be too hard to include a "don't
show this again" checkbox etc so the ones who see it too often and don't feel
it serves any purpose, could just get rid of it?</pre>
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