Description: No quick select arrow for selecting all content of a single table cell. Selecting must be done manually. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open the attached file 2. Hoover at the left corner of cell B2. No arrow is showing up for selecting the all the cell content at once Actual Results: No arrow which makes it possible to select the full cell content with a single click Expected Results: Would be a nice feature Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: Version: 6.1.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: b87fe45e8b087a315a65b92bf9c168b1e4c5cc00 CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.3; UI render: default; TinderBox: Win-x86@42, Branch:master, Time: 2018-02-16_23:14:35 Locale: nl-NL (nl_NL); Calc: CL User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
Created attachment 139991 [details] Example file
Alternative proposal: Add "mark cell" to context menu => I would like to change the summary to something like "Make it possible to select a single cell in an easy way"
Something more than the <ctrl><shift>+<end> selection? Within a table it acts only on current cell.
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #3) > Something more than the <ctrl><shift>+<end> selection? Within a table it > acts only on current cell. Something like that. It's more a workflow thingy (or a personal preference). I'm a bit mouse/trackpad addicted. Using a drag and drop the moving content around. For example from A1 to A2. If the content is a single paragraph isn't to hard (three taps on the mac trackpad). It gets problematic with multiple paragraphs. <ctrl><shift>+<end> or for a mac cmd+shift+arrow is an option. However, I have to switch from the trackpad to the keyboard first. Or selecting the content manually with the trackpad.
If I'm not wrong. Tap twice and without release drag down (two cells selected ) and up (one cell selected. With keyboard shift+down+up.
(In reply to m.a.riosv from comment #5) > Tap twice and without release drag down (two cells selected ) and up (one > cell selected. Single tap that is. (Double tap activates cell edit mode)
Just noticing that this is about Writer, not Calc, and in Writer clicking/tapping on a cell is clicking into a cell. So neither single nor double click and then selecting over other cells selects the entire cell content if the cursor hit some content, but a click *behind* all content and then drag down and up selects the entire cell.
Cell contains a single paragraph Mouse * double tab/click drag * click *behind* all content and then drag down and up selects the entire cell. * Click into the cell and drag over the content Keyboard * Enter cell & CTRL+SHIFT+END ----- Cell contains a multi-paragraph Mouse * click *behind* all content and then drag down and up selects the entire cell. * Click into the cell and drag over the content. A bit unpractical with a large cell Keyboard * Enter cell & CTRL+SHIFT+END Note: "The click *behind* all content and then drag down and up selects the entire cell" can be seen as a bug, especially when crossing a border by accident, no correction possible (bug 106009 a previous report of mine, so maybe just me & Buovjaga)
Created attachment 140739 [details] Screencast of the current situation Don't get the problem. Click into a cell and move the cursor with pressed button right/down. Or press shift+right/down.
Created attachment 140741 [details] Screencast Screencast for bug 115852 and bug 106009 Thinking about this again: The arrow isn't really useful. Only some optimization needed related to bug 106009 -> NAB
Okay, so the requirement is: Benjamin wants to highlight/select a single cell in order to... ? (Guess you will find a reason for cell selection that is different to content selection.) Supposed workflow is to use Table > Select > Cell. Workaround would be so select the paragraph (ctrl+a or shift+ctrl+down), extend the selection by shift+down, and shrink the selection with shift+up (works also with the mouse.) Agree with Dieter's comment 2, if we really need that function.
There is an icon "Cell" in the table toolbar to select the cell, where the cursor is. If you already use the mouse, it is a single click. The associated command is ".uno:EntireCell". In the customize dialog it is named "Select Cell". You can assign a short cut key or put it into context menu. Perhaps something can be predefined? You need to select a single cell for to apply boarders to a single cell. Word has the option "cell" in the border dialog, so it has no need for such a click-select. LibreOffice has the option "cell" only in the background color dialog.
(In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #12) > .uno:EntireCell Selects the entire cell, in fact. > Perhaps something can be predefined? Disagree, users must not need a second keyboard to deal with LibreOffice ;-) > You need to select a single cell for to apply boarders to a single cell. Don't see it. Background color or border attributes are applied to the cell even when not selected as entire cell. (Talking about Writer, see c7) => WFM