Bug 170447 - While Editing a cell, content reappears when last character is deleted from cell
Summary: While Editing a cell, content reappears when last character is deleted from cell
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 168071
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
25.8.4.2 release
Hardware: ARM macOS (All)
: medium minor
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Reported: 2026-01-23 10:05 UTC by frankwiesert
Modified: 2026-02-04 10:06 UTC (History)
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Description frankwiesert 2026-01-23 10:05:48 UTC
Description:
While editing a cell in Calc, when I delete characters from a cell via the backspace or delete key they disappear from the cell as expected, but the moment I delete the last character from the cell the original contents of the cell reappears. When I now press enter the cell is empty, so this seams to be just a display issue.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a new Calc sheet.
2. Enter some text into a cell.
3. press enter (leave the cell)
4. edit the cell, delete characters via delete or backspace key till all characters were deleted.

Actual Results:
After the last character has been deleted the cell suddenly displays the contents that was in there before the deletion started.

Expected Results:
Cell should be displayed as empty.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
I've seen this behaviour on 2 different computers under Windows 11 and on MacOS with LibreOffice 25.8.
Previously I did use LibreOffice 25.2 and the bug was not present.
Comment 1 m_a_riosv 2026-01-23 13:01:38 UTC
Reproducible (Force or not Skia Software rendering doesn't solve the issue)
Version: 25.8.4.2 (X86_64)
Build ID: 290daaa01b999472f0c7a3890eb6a550fd74c6df
CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26200); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-GB (es_ES); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

Not reproducible with
Version: 26.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64)
Build ID: 680(Build:0)
CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26200); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: es-ES (es_ES); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
OR
Version: 26.2.0.1 (X86_64)
Build ID: 620(Build:1)
CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26200); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: es-ES (es_ES); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 2 BogdanB 2026-01-25 10:27:14 UTC
I remember this bug was already reported. m_a_riosv, can you search for a duplicate one?
Comment 3 m_a_riosv 2026-01-25 23:52:39 UTC
Not easy to find, I think this one.

Please, if you disagree, reopen it.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 143709 ***
Comment 4 nobu 2026-02-04 10:06:34 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 168071 ***