Bug 156246 - Can't clear background of cells of various tables at the same time
Summary: Can't clear background of cells of various tables at the same time
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
5.3.0.3 release
Hardware: All Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Blocks: Writer-Tables
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Reported: 2023-07-12 01:50 UTC by ksso
Modified: 2023-08-13 18:30 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Attachments
background cell tables (53.70 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2023-07-12 01:50 UTC, ksso
Details
simple table background (12.79 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2023-07-29 18:08 UTC, Adam664
Details

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Description ksso 2023-07-12 01:50:05 UTC
Description:
clearing the backgroud of tables is easy one by one,
if you select all text and try to do, it can't be done
may be not a bug?

Steps to Reproduce:
1.make several tables with background
2.select all text
3.try to clear background of all tables at the same time

Actual Results:
can't clear background of cells of different tables at the same time

Expected Results:
clear background of cells of different tables at the same time


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
https://www.vidlii.com/watch?v=iPkDxFGLiWM
Comment 1 ksso 2023-07-12 01:50:29 UTC
Created attachment 188325 [details]
background cell tables
Comment 2 Adam664 2023-07-29 18:08:47 UTC
Created attachment 188647 [details]
simple table background
Comment 3 Adam664 2023-07-29 18:09:19 UTC
Hello, thanks for reporting the bug. I can't reproduce the bug because LibreOffice won't let me select multiple tables.

What are the steps you are using to select multiple tables at once? I've attatched the a file with a simple test case that I used.

Can you also include the version information of LO that you are using by going to 
Help -> About LibreOffice and then copy and paste the information to your response.

Setting status to NEEDINFO
Comment 4 ksso 2023-07-29 18:20:23 UTC
What are the steps you are using to select multiple tables at once? I've attatched the a file with a simple test case that I used.

Ctrl + A (several times A, in order to select all text)
or
click and drag the pointer in order to select the tables, if the tables are bigger than workspace it will jump


Can you also include the version information of LO that you are using by going to 
Help -> About LibreOffice and then copy and paste the information to your response

Version: 7.5.5.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 50(Build:2)
CPU threads: 12; OS: Linux 6.2; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+xcb)
Locale: es-CO (es_CO.UTF-8); UI: es-ES
Ubuntu package version: 4:7.5.5~rc2-0ubuntu0.23.04.1~lo1
Calc: threaded
Comment 5 Adam664 2023-07-29 19:10:26 UTC
Reproduced the behavior on  

Version: 5.3.0.0.alpha1+
Build ID: 4136757b4e51c4e6f7cb4132c95538a7f831ef2c
CPU Threads: 1; OS Version: Linux 6.3; UI Render: default; VCL: gtk3; Layout Engine: new; 
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); Calc: group

Changed earliest affected to version listed above as that's the earliest version I have available at the moment.

It seems that none of the table attributes can be changed on multiple tables at a time. i.e. you can't change the border of multiple selected tables.

You can change the text in each cell, when multiple tables are selected. This may have to do with how/what is actually selected, is it the table that's selected or is it the text inside the table?

Updated steps to reproduce:
1. open attached simple table background
2. select all text by using Ctrl A(press multiple times as needed)
3. right click selection, go to table properties, select background, select color, select table, then change the color of the background

The background of the multiple tables stays the same.

Setting to NEW, may need to be considered as a UX improvement.
Comment 6 ksso 2023-08-13 18:30:45 UTC
however, sometimes LO does not allow me to select some tables, somehow it is blocked, but I don't know how to reproduce it