Bug 136196 - Unable to Delete Impress Table
Summary: Unable to Delete Impress Table
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 117485
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Impress (show other bugs)
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7.0.0.3 release
Hardware: All All
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Reported: 2020-08-27 17:07 UTC by Rafael Lima
Modified: 2020-08-27 19:24 UTC (History)
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Description Rafael Lima 2020-08-27 17:07:45 UTC
I am adding a table to Impress and I am unable to delete the whole table. I try to select only the table, not its contents. But when I press the Delete key, it deletes the contents instead of the whole table.

The only way I can delete the table is when I click the "Delete Columns" button after selecting the whole table.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Insert a table into the presentation
2) Add some text to the table
3) Click outside the table to exit it
4) Now click the table border to select the whole table (note that it selects the contents of the whole table; there is no way I can select the table object)
5) Press the Delete key
6) The contents will be deleted instead of the table

Next is a link to a Youtube video showing the bug (the video is not listed).
https://youtu.be/jk6SMMPhNXY

I think the problem here may have to do with the user being unable to select the table object.

Maybe a way to resolve this issue is to allow the user to press the Escape key, resulting in the selection of the table object instead of its contents. Currently, if I press Escape, it exits the table leaving nothing selected.

I am using LibreOffice 7.0.1 on Ubuntu 20.04 / Gnome 3.36 and Nvidia graphics.
Comment 1 Telesto 2020-08-27 19:24:04 UTC
It's surely annoying. Sadly a longstanding known bug

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 117485 ***