Sort and copy results

[Mat M]

Hello,

Le Thu, 05 Jun 2014 19:33:13 +0200, Kohei Yoshida  
<kohei.yoshida at collabora.com> a écrit:

> In Calc, you can go to Data -> Sort, and choose to copy the sorted
> results to someplace else, rather than the default option of sorting in
> place.
>
> I'm just wondering if anyone would miss this feature if it got removed.
>
> The UI is a bit awkward, and not clear what the associated two fields
> (left drop-down and right input fields) are supposed to take.
>
> Also, handling this option internally would require quite some extra
> effort, which, when one is trying to fix issues associted with this,
> would pose a greater risk of breaking things.
>
> Any objections for removing this?
>
> Kohei

Could we (well, huh, you ?) just copy the data first, then sort them  
in-place ? It will preserve the feature without causing effort to  
maintain. And we may even soften the UI by adding some labels to boxes.

My 2 cents
Mat M