[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 145414] Paste Special Feature Suggestions

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145414

Carl Pearson <librebugs at osxtra.dev> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Carl Pearson <librebugs at osxtra.dev> ---
Hi, Heiko, thanks for reaching out.  Yes, I have looked at Paste Special. 
Looks like Transpose has recently been added.  One Windows machine I use has
7.1.2.2, and it's not there.  My Mac machine has 7.3.5.2, and Transpose is
present.

In any event, in the original submission I'd really made just two suggestions:
One regarding easier ways to get at the various options in the context menu's
"Paste Special" section; the other, adding "Paste Column Widths" as a new
choice.

On the first suggestion, there are two issues:  Not all "Paste Special"
operations are available in Tools/Customize; also, it does not appear possible
to set a sub-menu item.

(Currently only "Paste Special" and "Styles" have sub-menus.  If one can modify
those sub-menu choices, I haven't seen how.  There is an arrow in
Tools/Customize presumably indicating the existence of the sub-menu, but no
apparent way to see or modify what that sub-menu does.  The sub-choices
themselves appear to be hard-coded, and the only way to actually see them is to
use the context menu.)

At least so far as pasting goes, the first issue could be resolved by adding
all of the "missing" Paste Special choices into Tools/Customize (Formats,
Objects, etc.).  Even if the second issue was not addressed, keyboard-centric
folk could just make a shortcut, while those preferring the mouse would be able
to add one of the currently missing choices as a top-level option to the
context menu, though of course being able to modify the sub-menu would be the
ideal solution.

On the second suggestion, pasting column widths has been possible for many
years in another spreadsheet app, and is very handy for copying the look & feel
of one tab to another (that's why I also threw row heights in there, which to
my knowledge does not exist in the other app).  Either way, making the regular
"Paste" command width-aware, or adding a specific "Paste Widths" choice, would
work.

If you need any other info, please let me know!

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