Bug 108639 - Cannot select individual characters of span element contents with mouse
Summary: Cannot select individual characters of span element contents with mouse
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
Inherited From OOo
Hardware: x86 (IA32) All
: medium minor
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Blocks: Selection
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Reported: 2017-06-19 21:41 UTC by Kevin
Modified: 2023-05-25 09:29 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Attachments
steps and demo for 108639 (12.67 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet)
2017-06-19 21:42 UTC, Kevin
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Description Kevin 2017-06-19 21:41:49 UTC
Description:
clicking and dragging fails to work in some cases

Steps to Reproduce:
1. load attached spread - detailed steps are included in the .ODS file


Actual Results:  
you can't select certain ranges of characters within a cell using the mouse

Expected Results:
you should be able to select characters just as you do with Notepad or any other program


Reproducible: Always

User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36
Comment 1 Kevin 2017-06-19 21:42:33 UTC
Created attachment 134141 [details]
steps and demo for 108639
Comment 2 Kevin 2017-06-19 21:46:13 UTC
note: I realized that having the mouse only select chunks of characters delimited by spaces is a feature of many programs but that's not what's happening here - it allows selection within the 3rd and 4th chunks, but not within the 2nd chunk - whether the "select whole words" type of feature is in force or not (I'm not sure if this feature is part of Calc) the behavior shown here is inconsistent.
Comment 3 Buovjaga 2017-06-27 16:53:33 UTC
If we look at the content.xml inside the file, we can see that 34 is inside this element:

<text:span text:style-name="T3"> 34 </text:span>

I guess this is coming from that Excel file of yours.
Comment 4 Buovjaga 2017-06-27 17:19:08 UTC
Arch Linux 64-bit, KDE Plasma 5
Version: 6.0.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: f808c50c6eece87d515df3b84b1c774395b5d9bc
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 4.11; UI render: default; VCL: kde4; 
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); Calc: group
Built on June 26th 2017

Arch Linux 64-bit
LibreOffice 3.3.0 
OOO330m19 (Build:6)
tag libreoffice-3.3.0.4
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Comment 8 BogdanB 2023-05-21 18:37:56 UTC
I retested this bug, no problem for me with 7.5. Please retest.

Version: 7.5.3.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 9f56dff12ba03b9acd7730a5a481eea045e468f3
CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 5.19; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: ro-RO (ro_RO.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 9 Buovjaga 2023-05-25 09:29:24 UTC
Yes, it works now.

Arch Linux 64-bit, X11
Version: 7.6.0.0.alpha1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 85a47bbb8340e65a19dc1ceaac768902a771ee77
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.3; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+xcb)
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Built on 17 May 2023