Version: 7.1.3.2 / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 10(Build:2) CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.11; UI render: default; VCL: x11 Locale: en-US (en_US.utf8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded Steps to reproduce: 1 In the attached document, click right on A1 -> "Copy" 2 Right-click on A2 -> Paste Special -> Paste special ... 3 In the pop-up dialog, under "Selection", unselect everything and select "Comments", and click "OK" Expected: Comment is pasted without clearing target cell content Actual: text in A2 is deleted One openSUSE user reported it for LO 7.1.1.2. The problem remains. Looks like a bug to me.
You need to activate option "[o] Add" under "Operations" as well to have the comment being "added" instead of comment replacing all cell content in A2 From my perspective not a bug but usage error. Ref.: https://help.libreoffice.org/7.1/en-US/text/shared/01/02070000.html?System=UNIX&DbPAR=CALC&HID=modules/scalc/ui/pastespecial/dialog-action_area1#bm_id31541011
Please feel free to reopen, if you don't agree.
Thanks for the explanation :) next time I will check the docs.
(Hi, I'm the person who reported this to Markéta on SUSE bugzilla). I can see that it's documented to work this way. But it makes no sense to me. Comments aren't cell contents. If nothing except "Comments" is activated below "Selection", why would the user also have to choose "Add", too? The expectation is that the comments and *only* the comments are pasted, otherwise the user would have selected at least one of the other "Selection" options besides "Comments", e.g. "Text" or "Numbers". And if this really is how "paste special" should behave, why isn't it the case for pasting "Formats"? In that case, users don't have to select "Add" to paste the formats and nothing else. This is inconsistent at least. Can you provide a rationale for this behavior? Not sure if this matters, but Excel doesn't require selecting "Add": https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/insert-comments-and-notes-in-excel-bdcc9f5d-38e2-45b4-9a92-0b2b5c7bf6f8#ID0EBACAAA=Windows https://www.extendoffice.com/documents/excel/1258-excel-copy-comments-from-cell-to-another.html (I can't test with Excel, because the only version I have is Excel/Web in o365, which doesn't have general "Paste special" functionality at all; same for Google Docs). The screenshot in the 2nd reference above suggests that, in Excel, the "Operation" selection is actually inactive / greyed out when "Comments" are selected only. I found another equally weird and possibly related issue: When pasting "Text" only into a cell which has a comment, the comment of the target cell (the one pasted into) is deleted. This is highly unexpected, at least by yours truly. Selecting "Add" doesn't change this behavior. Actually, I haven't figured out how to paste anything into a cell in LO 7.2 without destroying the existing comments on that cell (well, pasting "Formats" only seems to work). This definitely differs from the behavior of both Excel and Google Docs. If you think this is not a bug, please provide some convincing arguments.
I think the "Add"-Operation is rather a workaround. It seems the paste flags are not fully respected. There are similar issues, e.g. bug 142093. So, for me this is a bug.
I can confirm Excel does not need to tick "Add" and pasting of comments works as expected. (I would reopen the corresponding bug on the openSUSE Bugzilla, but it is currently down.)
(In reply to Roland Kurmann from comment #5) > I think the "Add"-Operation is rather a workaround. It seems the paste flags > are not fully respected. There are similar issues, e.g. bug 142093. > So, for me this is a bug. A documented bug (https://help.libreoffice.org/7.1/en-US/text/shared/01/02070000.html?System=UNIX&DbPAR=CALC&HID=modules/scalc/ui/pastespecial/dialog-action_area1#bm_id31541011)? If at all - it is an enhancement request.
(In reply to Uwe Auer from comment #7) > A documented bug > (https://help.libreoffice.org/7.1/en-US/text/shared/01/02070000. > html?System=UNIX&DbPAR=CALC&HID=modules/scalc/ui/pastespecial/dialog- > action_area1#bm_id31541011)? The documentation is reflecting the current state. I would expect a different behavior. Using the add operation is not intuitive. Currently, I'm working on "Special Paste" issues. After my other changes are solved and merged, I want to have a look at the paste flags in "Special Paste" dialog.
No idea why bug 139858 is just See Also, when this one seems duplicate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 139858 ***