Bug 91042

Summary: copy & paste looses formula if omitting cells in between
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: t.zuelsdorf
Component: CalcAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG    
Severity: normal CC: miguelangelrv
Priority: medium    
Version: Inherited From OOo   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Attachments: example for copy-paste-issue

Description t.zuelsdorf 2015-05-03 11:38:02 UTC
Created attachment 115286 [details]
example for copy-paste-issue

A1 : Text1
B1 : =1+2
C1 : Text2
D1 : Text3


1. 
mark A1:C1
copy & paste elsewhere => B1 still =1+2

2.
mark A1, B1 and D1
copy & paste elsewhere => B1 just 3 instead of the formula
Comment 1 MM 2015-05-03 12:59:00 UTC
Confirmed with v4.4.3.2 under windows 7 x64
Confirmed with v4.4.3.2 under mint 17.1 x64
Confirmed with v3.3.4 under windows 7 x64

Doesn't copy the formula when you skip rows/cells. As a workaround, when you know you need to copy/paste, use 'paste special/paste all'.

I set the importance a bit higher as it can affect a lot of users with a broken core function.
Comment 2 m_a_riosv 2015-05-04 00:02:56 UTC
As I know copy-paste multiple selection it's not available, at least for multi-range destination.

How it works it's explained in:
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Calc/Features/Multi-range_copy_and_paste
LibreOffice was born from OpenOffice.

Comments from developer in http://kohei.us/2009/06/03/multi-range-selection-copy-paste/

It's works as designed, resolved as not a bug.
Comment 3 MM 2015-05-04 23:13:30 UTC
Maybe it's not a bug, works as designed. But how would people know this, except that someone would have to look it up on the 'competitors' wiki site ? Someone *would* expect that everything is copied, not half.