Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 54815
preview left panel blocks cut and paste
Last modified: 2005-09-20 07:30:45 UTC
In an impress doc you have an object you want to cut from its actual page and paste it into another one. After cutting (or copying) it from the original page you click on the desired destination page icon on the left-sided preview panel. After this you try to paste the object but nothing happens. To successfully paste you have to first re-click again on the new page in the central editing view, otherwise the focus is antained by the preview panel and the paste command does nothing. This is quite counter-intuitive: it should work this way only if the object in the clipboard is a page that can be actually be pasted in the preview panel, not for any object that cannot be pasted there. Some confusion with the preview panel arises also when using the zoom commands: you move from a page to another one with a click on its preview in the left panel, and then use the zoom to enlarge it because you want to work on a detail. However the zoom command is applied to the preview panel (in quite unpredictable fashion) instead of the page to be edited. Yu have to click again on the later and then re-choose the zoom tool to apply it correctly.
@ scagni So it is, and I'm not very happy with that behaviour, too. That's no bug, but of course, it would be more userfriendly if OOo could decide "Paste object immediately to selected slide". We hae the same behaviour in DRAW. I close this issue and will write a detailled enhancement request tomorrow. Thanks for your proposal!
Closed.