Bug 168879 - Named range "Name Box" widget is too narrow to show long names (show contents in hover tooltip?)
Summary: Named range "Name Box" widget is too narrow to show long names (show contents...
Status: NEW
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Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
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Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Blocks: Named-Range-Dialogs
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Reported: 2025-10-16 02:03 UTC by Jeff Fortin Tam
Modified: 2025-10-16 04:14 UTC (History)
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Description Jeff Fortin Tam 2025-10-16 02:03:37 UTC
The "Name Box" widget in LibreOffice Calc, on the left of the formulas bar in the main toolbar, is often too narrow for long/explicit cell/column/row ranges names, and it's therefore difficult to quickly check the exact name of a range without having to bring up the whole "Manage Names…" dialog (which is a ton of extra steps to deal with).

It would be much nicer if I could see the full name of the range in a tooltip widget when I hover the Name Box with the mouse (or even when I hover the column / row, when the range is a whole column/row).


To reproduce, in a Calc spreadsheet:

1. Select column A and name it "col_amount_paid_forex_unchecked"
2. Select column B, and name it "col_amount_paid_forex_checked"
3. Select column A and try to read it. You can't easily do that,
   as the Name Box is truncated to "col_amount_paid_f" (in the GTK3 version)

This is particularly problematic when you have ton of named ranges (I have dozens per sheet).

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Tested with:

Version: 25.8.2.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: d401f2107ccab8f924a8e2df40f573aab7605b6f
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.16; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
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Comment 1 Jeff Fortin Tam 2025-10-16 02:08:49 UTC
Alternatively / in addition, it could be nice if the dropdown menu that shows up when you click the "⌄" menubutton on the right of the Name Box would highlight the current selection's corresponding name in the list, by making it boldtype or putting an icon/emoji next to it (such as a checkmark: ✓), that way it would work even with touchscreens that can't display tooltips, though it would require an extra click in that case.
Comment 2 BogdanB 2025-10-16 04:14:01 UTC
Confirm with
Version: 25.8.2.2 (X86_64)
Build ID: d401f2107ccab8f924a8e2df40f573aab7605b6f
CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 6.14; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

Hard to know the column A name.