Bug 34094 - Select Column creating formula
Summary: Select Column creating formula
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.5.0 Beta2
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Dennis Francis
URL:
Whiteboard: target:5.2.0
Keywords:
: 92439 93937 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2011-02-09 08:44 UTC by Tim
Modified: 2020-01-17 21:38 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

See Also:
Crash report or crash signature:


Attachments
Example for column select (11.75 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet)
2011-02-10 01:46 UTC, Tim
Details

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Description Tim 2011-02-09 08:44:49 UTC
Would be very helpful to be able to select multiple columns or rows when creating a formula.

For Example =SUM(E)

Or in a VLookup =VLOOKUP(B1,Sheet1.A:B), rather than having to select the individual cells.

Cheers,
Tim
Comment 1 Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) 2011-02-09 11:37:33 UTC
Please be more specific with your description - provide a step-by-step explanation (http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport#What_to_include_in_bug_reports)
Comment 2 Tim 2011-02-10 01:46:16 UTC
Created attachment 43192 [details]
Example for column select
Comment 3 Tim 2011-02-10 01:51:38 UTC
Attached above is an example file, check Sheet2 out for example.

Step by Step:
When creating a VLOOKUP, rather than selecting Sheet1.A1:B1048576, to select all of columns A & B, would be a lot easier to just click on the column headers, and have the formula as Sheet1.A:B.


Start typing Formula, =VLOOKUP(
Go to the sheet where you are doing the lookup
Click and drag on the column headers to select which columns you would like to do the VLOOKUP
Formula becomes Sheet1.A:B when selecting columns A & B.

At the moment you cannot select a Column, you have to select the cells to be used in the formula.
Comment 4 Björn Michaelsen 2011-12-23 11:45:44 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 Björn Michaelsen 2011-12-23 16:59:53 UTC
needinfo keyword redundant by needinfo status.
Comment 6 Tim 2011-12-28 01:54:38 UTC
Confirmed as still not working in 3.5.0 Beta2 on OS X 10.6.8
Comment 7 Winfried Donkers 2013-07-04 08:54:18 UTC
There is a workaround for this matter:
You can give names to ranges:
-select column A
-menu insert-names-define
-give a name to the range (e.g. A)
and use those names in formulas:
-enter in cell =SUM( A ) to get the sum of all cell values in column A

I hope this helps (as long as the requested enhancement is not realised).
Comment 8 Joel Madero 2015-10-10 16:25:05 UTC
*** Bug 93937 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Dennis Francis 2015-11-21 00:02:22 UTC
Submitted a patch for review at https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/20102/
Comment 10 Eike Rathke 2015-11-30 11:27:28 UTC
*** Bug 92439 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 Óvári 2015-11-30 20:35:45 UTC
Added CC from Bug 92439
Comment 12 Commit Notification 2015-12-14 17:08:46 UTC
Dennis Francis committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=e0b93ef5712264f78b8876993e718ccaad2c1216

tdf#34094 : Allow column and row selections while creating a formula

It will be available in 5.2.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 13 Ari Latvala 2015-12-14 17:44:25 UTC
Great news, I'd really love to see this already on 5.1 though. Using a lot of that feature.
Comment 14 Óvári 2015-12-15 20:28:38 UTC
(In reply to Commit Notification from comment #12)
> Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.

Please see bug 96523.

Thank you
Comment 15 Óvári 2015-12-15 21:02:09 UTC
(In reply to Commit Notification from comment #12)
> Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.

Please see bug 96524.

Thank you
Comment 16 Óvári 2016-01-09 10:10:51 UTC
(In reply to Commit Notification from comment #12)
> Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.

Please see bug 96981.

Thank you
Comment 17 Óvári 2016-01-12 22:22:00 UTC
Added bug 97084
Comment 18 Óvári 2016-01-14 23:05:24 UTC
(In reply to Commit Notification from comment #12)
> Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.

Select Column {Ctrl+Space} (bug 92453); Row {Shift+Space} (bug 92452); Sheet {Ctrl+Shift+Space} (bug 96969) {using keyboard shortcuts} creating formula.

Thank you