Bug 156695 - Support reordering/replacing a selected row or column
Summary: Support reordering/replacing a selected row or column
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
unspecified
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2023-08-09 13:05 UTC by AvidSeeker
Modified: 2025-10-13 07:39 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Screencast for intended feature (676.93 KB, video/webm)
2023-08-09 13:06 UTC, AvidSeeker
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Description AvidSeeker 2023-08-09 13:05:56 UTC
Description:
In Google Sheets, it's possible to select a row, then drag-and-drop it, making it easy to reorder rows. Same thing for columns. In Libreoffice, this is not supported. Not even via Right click > move row up/down.

Example video is attached: https://i.imgur.com/o9ObAfX.mp4

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Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

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Comment 1 AvidSeeker 2023-08-09 13:06:22 UTC
Created attachment 188872 [details]
Screencast for intended feature
Comment 2 m_a_riosv 2023-08-09 21:25:50 UTC
Please take a look of the solution in this thread of LibreOffice forum.

https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/how-to-move-columns-rows-in-calc/8234/16
Comment 3 AvidSeeker 2023-08-10 01:49:05 UTC
The provided solution works for me. But several people in the discussion were facing problems with this (Especially is Alt key is used a modifier key by the desktop environment).

Can the drag-and-drop feature be more intuitive? Take a look on the screencast attached.
Comment 4 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-08-10 08:23:40 UTC
Let's mark as a duplicate of earlier bug 46930.
Also related is bug 99457.
Please feel free to contribute your ideas there!
Thank you!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 46930 ***
Comment 5 Eyal Rozenberg 2025-10-11 18:01:47 UTC
I believe this is not a dupe:

* Bug 46930 requests for the possibility of replacing _without_ selection, by click-dragging the header.
* This bug is about replacement/repositioning of a _selected_ row/column.

Of course they are closely related. I would mark this as NEW.
Comment 6 Heiko Tietze 2025-10-13 07:39:33 UTC
(In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #4)
> Let's mark as a duplicate of earlier bug 46930.
> Also related is bug 99457.

(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #5)
> I believe this is not a dupe:

How do you think UX can be of service? I believe it is in general disadvantageous to bloat the bugtracker with all flavors of a feature request.