[Bug 167868] It is too difficult to change the order of columns (or rows)

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Sat Aug 9 13:53:27 UTC 2025


https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167868

--- Comment #6 from Regina Henschel <rb.henschel at t-online.de> ---
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #5)
> (In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #2)
> > Mark the row (or column). Set cell cursor to first cell in row (or Column)
> 
> This part happens automatically when I select the whole row (or column)
> 
> > and drag it to the desired position. While dragging hold down Alt-key.
> 
> Can't do that on my desktop environment (Cinnamon on Linux) - Using Alt+Drag
> moves the window...

>From bug 47017 I guess, that it has to be Alt+Shift on Linux. If that is true,
then the OS dependency is missing in
https://help.libreoffice.org/master/en-US/text/scalc/guide/move_dragdrop.html.

For a request for a solution in context menu see bug 39936.

The move feature itself was introduced in OOo with
https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=7180 and specified there in
http://specs.openoffice.org/calc/ease-of-use/Insertion_of_Cells.odt.

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