hi, it would be great to have a range selection method... EDIT select all select range <-- this would be it :) and a pop-up would ask you to enter the starting page and the end... How useful would this be? Whenever one wants to copy text from a lengthy document, this could come very handy... ....... It could also be implemented through the Navigator... say, you CRTL + A... and then open (pop up) the Navigator... where there would be "selection range" as a menu item in the top bar... active when "select all" is active... and then you could trim the selection... starting page, end page... A handy thing like this could make Writer very sympathetic for some people who have successfully used this once... - - - thank you for developing Writer - - - -
This is similar to the already-implemented bug 154211: range selection using elements in the navigator. Given that the navigator does not have a page listing (only a jump-to feature), and that it wouldn't make sense to list hundreds of pages, it can't be implemented in the same way. Just like we can print a range (or selection) of pages, I think it makes sense to make it easy to select the contents of a range (or selection) of pages. Jim and Design/UX team, what do you think? Related ask.LO question: https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/how-do-you-select-a-range-of-pages-in-writer/4661
(In reply to peter josvai from comment #0) > Whenever one wants to copy text from a lengthy document, > this could come very handy... Sounds like a idea rather than a real use case. The term range reminds me on Calc where you define such subset in a matrix. In case of Writer it would be Select Pages: [from] [to]. It's a slow and bulky interaction and I see no benefit.
(In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #1) > This is similar to the already-implemented bug 154211: range selection using > elements in the navigator. > Related ask.LO question: > https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/how-do-you-select-a-range-of-pages-in-writer/ > 4661 Peter, since I only can think of a use case as described in ask.libreoffice (selecting a chapter), I'd like to ask, if new feature in LO 7.6 solves your problem. => NEEDINFO
Created attachment 188752 [details] select pages using pages dialog demo Is what is shown in the attached demo the idea here?
(In reply to Jim Raykowski from comment #4) > Is what is shown in the attached demo the idea here? Likely it is. While I'd rather not put effort into some idea as moving/selecting chapters is easy to do there is on the other hand nothing bad in adding such a function. But it should require customization (so off/hidden by default). Assigning the ticket to you, Jim.
Proposed enhancement patch: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/155933