Description: When you completely highlight an entire table that is protected (every cell in the table), you can then right click on the table and select 'Unprotect Cells' to unlock all of them. However, when you completely highlight an entire table that is unprotected, there is no menu item that says 'Protect Cells' upon right clicking. You therefore, have to go up to the main menu 'Tables' and then select 'Protect Cells' from there. It would be much more convenient to be able to protect the cells from the right click menu. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Create multi-line table 2.Highlight all table cells 3.Right click - no 'Protect Cells' menu item option Actual Results: none Expected Results: none Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: none
I guess you speak about Writer, because you neither marked not wrote. It's true that right click on the table gives 'Unprotect Cells' and that makes sense and that menu is smaller. It's also true that right click on the table or selected cells doesn't give 'Protect Cells' but that menu is bigger and let's ask UX should it be there, taking the frequency of use. Note to reporter: there are icons to protect and unprotect, that can be added to toolbar. Should be a toggle. I will write about that in bug 130783.
I don't see a "Protect Cells" item for single cell selection too. But "Unprotect Cells" is there. The supposed workflow is to use main menu or the toolbar to set the protection plus context menu for removing it. Both provide easy access to the functions. And as Timur pointed out, we have to keep the context menu short with only the most relevant functions. You can customize it for your use case per tools > customize > context menu: target = Table, search for Protect and use the arrows in the middle to move the command.
Just this: Status WFM is when there was a bug, indicating a reverse bibisect would be nice. Here is WontFix, legitimate request that is rejected for general use (regardless of given advice to customize menu, that itself would be NotABug).