Bug 113232 - Cells in rows/columns that are hidden with Data > Group and Outline are overwritten with paste and included when copying
Summary: Cells in rows/columns that are hidden with Data > Group and Outline are overw...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
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(earliest affected)
unspecified
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Keywords: needsUXEval
: 114137 118841 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: Group&Outline
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Reported: 2017-10-18 18:08 UTC by Cor Nouws
Modified: 2020-11-12 09:27 UTC (History)
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Description Cor Nouws 2017-10-18 18:08:25 UTC
When cells in rows/columns are hidden with Data > Group and Outline > .. these  cells are nevertheless overwritten with paste and also the content of these cells is included when copying.
This is contrary to the behavior with the cell that are hidden with filtering.
At least an option to disable this, would be useful.

Version: unspecified (expecting it's so from OOo times)
Comment 1 Heiko Tietze 2017-10-19 07:15:29 UTC
It's the same when cells are hidden via Hide Column, for example. Wonder how Excel behaves here. Eike, what do you think?
Comment 2 Cor Nouws 2017-10-19 08:07:59 UTC
And for now this extension
  https://extensions.libreoffice.org/extensions/copy-only-visible-cells
is our friend.
Comment 3 Cor Nouws 2017-10-23 18:53:57 UTC
(In reply to Cor Nouws from comment #2)
> And for now this extension
>   https://extensions.libreoffice.org/extensions/copy-only-visible-cells
> is our friend.

Ehh, not :\
Great extension, but we need the 'complementary' function: paste-in-visble-cells-only ;)
Comment 4 m_a_riosv 2017-11-29 15:00:14 UTC
*** Bug 114137 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 m_a_riosv 2018-07-19 08:06:48 UTC
*** Bug 118841 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Heiko Tietze 2020-11-12 09:27:51 UTC
We discussed this idea in the design meeting.

Hidden cells are actually zero-sized and it's not just the hidden group but also many other situations where format, paste, calculation are applied. If A:C contains 1 and B is hidden, you still get 3 as sum of A:C; if you copy three cells, it will be pasted in the hidden cells too; and applying a yellow background after selecting col A:C is also done for B.

Personally I would inform the user when any action affects hidden cells. But since this particular case was in request we recommend to keep the current behavior. => WF

Btw, Excel behaves exactly the same and familiarity for users who want to change is prime.