Bug 170362 - CALC - marked text in comment over frozen row is not copied
Summary: CALC - marked text in comment over frozen row is not copied
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
25.8.4.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
URL:
Whiteboard: QA:needsComment
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Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2026-01-16 10:01 UTC by BDF
Modified: 2026-02-01 03:19 UTC (History)
0 users

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Attachments
CALC - bug 170362 - not copied text in comment over frozen row (19.39 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet)
2026-01-16 10:06 UTC, BDF
Details
CALC - bug 170362 - not copied text in comment over frozen row-demo video (4.28 MB, video/webm)
2026-01-16 10:09 UTC, BDF
Details

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Description BDF 2026-01-16 10:01:58 UTC
Description:
If you open a comment in a way it overlays a frozen row, text marked right to left is not copied

Steps to Reproduce:
1. download provided file
(alternate: freeze first row (A), write a multi line comment in A2)
2. clear clipboard (eg. copy any dummy text)
3. copy text of first row of comment (that overlays the frozen row) right to left (!)
4. paste text into new comment

Actual Results:
Copied dummy text is inserted

Expected Results:
Text of first row is inserted


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
I noticed that the colour of the text marking is a dark blue rather than the default light blue.

This issue could be related to related to
) Bug 126847 - Comment on frozen row is truncated
) Bug 169915 - CALC - marking highlight in comment is kept while typing

LibreOffice (Linux):
- Version: 25.8.4.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
- Build ID: 290daaa01b999472f0c7a3890eb6a550fd74c6df
- CPU threads: 12; OS: Linux 6.14; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
- Locale: de-AT (de_AT.UTF-8); UI: de-DE
- Flatpak
- Calc: threaded

Operating System (Linux):
- Operating System: KDE neon User Edition
- KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.5
- KDE Frameworks Version: 6.22.0
- Qt Version: 6.10.1
- Kernel Version: 6.14.0-37-generic (64-bit)
- Graphics Platform: Wayland

Repo under Windows 10:
Libreoffice:
- Version: 24.2.6.3_AA (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
- Build ID: 23735e228767740599e3f00b9371b05bcbf243d2
- CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: default; VCL: win
- Locale: de-AT (de_AT); UI: de-DE
- Calc: threaded
Comment 1 BDF 2026-01-16 10:06:25 UTC
Created attachment 205063 [details]
CALC - bug 170362 - not copied text in comment over frozen row

demo file for bugs.

Do the the following steps:
(only 1 and 8 should repo, 2 - 7 is to show when the bug _exactly_ shows up) 

1) copy dummy text (‚clear‘ clipboard)
2) mark comment text (A2) bottom to top and paste comment text in new comment (A4)
3) delete comment and copy dummy text
4) mark comment text (A2) top to bottom and paste comment text in new comment (A4)
5) delete comment and copy dummy text
6) mark comment text (A2) only in the first row left to right and paste comment text in new comment (A4)
7) delete comment and copy dummy text
8) mark comment text (A2) only in the first row right to left (!) and paste comment text in new comment (A4)
Comment 2 BDF 2026-01-16 10:09:18 UTC
Created attachment 205064 [details]
CALC - bug 170362 - not copied text in comment over frozen row-demo video

demo video for the bug

Steps (only 1 and 8 will repo):
1) copy dummy text (‚clear‘ clipboard)
2) mark comment text (A2) bottom to top and paste comment text in new comment (A4)
3) delete comment and copy dummy text
4) mark comment text (A2) top to bottom and paste comment text in new comment (A4)
5) delete comment and copy dummy text
6) mark comment text (A2) only in the first row left to right and paste comment text in new comment (A4)
7) delete comment and copy dummy text
8) mark comment text (A2) only in the first row right to left (!) and paste comment text in new comment (A4)