Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 22857
difficult to undo replaced text in cell
Last modified: 2013-08-07 15:12:27 UTC
1) Create a new spreadsheet. 2) Insert one or more characters into a cell and press enter. 3) Single-click on the same cell and type a different character - the original contents are erased and replaced with the new character. 4) Decide you want the original contents instead - click Undo. The new character is erased and the cell is blank. 5) Try to click Undo again, but the feature is disabled. Panic. The original text is not restored. I frequently will do this when trying to do a find and pressing Ctrl and F in the wrong order, thus typing into a cell I didn't intend to change. It took a while to discover the workaround: 6) Move to a different cell and click Undo, or press Esc. The original contents are restored. The fact that Undo partially does the job and then says you can't undo any further was very confusing to me. This behavior is not mentioned in the help text.
Hi, this is not a bug. the undo works for the instance you've used, in this case the edit engine. So doing an undo results in an active edit engine with no content. if you close the cell and therefore the edit engine, an undo will restore the cell content. Nevertheless, I think we should consider the last undo of the edit engine to close it and restore the original content of the cell. So I re-flag this Issue from defect to enhancement and assign it to the feature group. Frank
As a user, I wasn't thinking of edit engines, only the fact that my data seemed to be irrevocably deleted. I don't recall any mention of edit engines in the help text. Microsoft Word's behavior in this case is much more reasonable.
A better comprehensible behaviour is visible in competitors spreadsheet: it shows, that after rewriting of the cell content (still in editmode) the former content is restored directly by doing the undo. We are splitting into two steps (closing the cell and then resetting the focus is needed) for an executed undo. That is not intuitive. Hello Niklas, please give approval for this evaluated OO.o 2.0 flagged issue. If you confirm with the target OO.o 2.0, then please keep it on your owner (or the owner of the concerning developer) for implementation. In case you want this issue for 'OOo Later', then please reset the target milestone. If you decline the issue finally, please set the resolution to 'Wontfix' (but do not close). In case of 'OOo Later' or 'Wontfix' please reset it on Bettina's owner. Thank you.
I should have said Excel rather than Word in my previous comment.
This is not on the list of features that we're going to do for 2.0. We need to focus on the enhancements from the PCD document.
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To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".