Bug 42807 - UI menu has 'Format-Group' and 'Data-Group and outline'; the first is disabled and should be removed
Summary: UI menu has 'Format-Group' and 'Data-Group and outline'; the first is disable...
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
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3.4.4 release
Hardware: Other All
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Reported: 2011-11-11 00:34 UTC by Winfried Donkers
Modified: 2013-03-20 14:53 UTC (History)
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Description Winfried Donkers 2011-11-11 00:34:48 UTC 
Menu 'Data-Group' has all its items disabled, menu 'Data-Group and outline' has all its items enabled (if applicable) and is documented in the help file.

Menu 'Data-Group'should be removed from the menu.

(LibO version 3.5 also has this behaviour)
Comment 1 Pedro 2013-03-19 14:38:25 UTC 
There is no menu Data-Group (not even in version 3.3.4.1). Only Data-Group and Outline.

Can you explain? Maybe this no longer applies?
Comment 2 Pedro 2013-03-19 14:55:46 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> There is no menu Data-Group (not even in version 3.3.4.1). Only Data-Group
> and Outline.

Apologies. There is a typo in the Description. You are obviously referring to Format-Group (as mentioned in the bug title)

I could not find any use for Format-Group under Windows (although there is a description of the functionality in the Help file). The options are always greyed-out.

Maybe it works under other platforms?
Comment 3 Winfried Donkers 2013-03-20 06:58:46 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
Pedro,
No apologies needed, I need to apologise for a bad description in comment #1.
You are right. it should be

Menu 'Format-Group' has all its items disabled, menu 'Data-Group and outline' has all its items enabled (if applicable) and is documented in the help file.

Menu 'Format-Group'should be removed from the menu.

BTW, version 4.0.1 still has this useless menu item under Format.
Comment 4 GerardF 2013-03-20 09:23:51 UTC 
?
'Format > Group' and 'Data > Group and outlines' are 2 differents things.

1st is for grouping graphics and is disabled unless you have graphics selected.
2nd is for grouping data (rows/columns).
Comment 5 GerardF 2013-03-20 09:36:06 UTC 
By graphics, i mean drawning objects, forms... (with my bad poor english, i'm not sure of the terms :( )
and it is not useless, even if I usualy use Contextual menu instead of 'Format > Group'.
Comment 6 Pedro 2013-03-20 10:09:19 UTC 
(In reply to comment #4)
> ?
> 'Format > Group' and 'Data > Group and outlines' are 2 differents things.
> 
> 1st is for grouping graphics and is disabled unless you have graphics
> selected.
> 2nd is for grouping data (rows/columns).

You are correct. In fact several options should disabled in the Format menu when a cell is selected.

Since options Anchor, Arrange, Flip, Group and Graphic only apply to Drawings and not cells they should be disabled (greyed out) in the Format menu unless a Drawing is selected.

In fact this also applies to Writer.
Comment 7 Winfried Donkers 2013-03-20 10:45:25 UTC 
Checked and(In reply to comment #4)
> ?
> 'Format > Group' and 'Data > Group and outlines' are 2 differents things.
> 
> 1st is for grouping graphics and is disabled unless you have graphics
> selected.
> 2nd is for grouping data (rows/columns).

I checked and tested, you are correct. Thank you for your help!
Comment 8 Pedro 2013-03-20 11:25:12 UTC 
Bug reported

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62554