Problem description: Cannot paste into autofiltered range, because selection is not uniform. Steps to reproduce: 1. Make a list of repeating numbers in one column such as 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4. 2. Now use autofilter to filter out everything but ones. 3. Let's say you want to copy there your two lines of data from somewhere else. But you cannot, Libreoffice says you cannot paste into multiple selections. Expected behavior: Being able to paste into autofiltered sheet to visible fields. Platform (if different from the browser): Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0
Checked with: LO 3.5.5.3 Build ID: own W7 debug build Windows 7 Professional SP1 64 bit In your example I could paste into filtered fields using Ctrl+V. I just received "cells contain data" warning. However paste commands in right-menu or toolbar buttons are disabled.
LibO 3.6.1, still the same. If you test it just make sure the range you are pasting into contains at least a row, which is filtered out. Easiest is to copy everything and then paste it into the same place.
Created attachment 124421 [details] Example document for easy testing. Still an issue in 5.1.2.1
Still same in 6.2.2.2 The error message in Calc is of course much better than Excel 2016-s way of pasting in hidden cells at random (some cells get new content, some don't, visible ones usually do).
This was also requested in https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/157634/paste-only-to-visible-cells-into-filtered-column-in-calc/ .
Created attachment 160989 [details] some tests copy/paste with discontinuos ranges misleading ... or improved? from the title/subject and the sample and test one could get the impression it's generally impossible to paste data into discontinuos areas ... at least with ver 7.0.0.0.a1+ and 6.2.8.2 the opposite is true, it is even possible to copy from one discountinuos area to other discountinuos areas, see attached sheet, cases S, U, Y, Z, only some simple cases are blocked, see yellow highlighting in attached sheet, why? was a developer 'unusually careful' not to produce errors by automatic extend of the target area? in other cases this is generously accepted, of course, a security warning would be desirable beforehand, there are! some flaws, see red highlighting in attached sheet, the request from this bug works if you select A2:A6 instead of only A2 as target for pasting, maybe that caused the norepro comment #1, i'd suggest: - enable pasting to 'small targets', - replace the option 'yes' from the dialog 'The content of the clipboard is bigger than the range selected. - Do you want to insert it anyway?' by a selection: A: 'shrink' - copy partial data to small target area, B: 'extend' - copy full clipboard to automatically extended target range, not only for copying to autofiltered ranges but in general if target < source in width or height,
In example document attachment 124421 [details] : 1. Copy B15:B16 2. Paste on A2 Result: "Insert into multiple selection not possible" I agree that this is not a good error message for this case, as the user has clearly not selected non-contiguous cell ranges, but only one single cell. Alternatively: 1. Copy B15:B16 2. Select range A2:A6 3. Paste Result: this works. Only the visible values are replaced by 2s. Interestingly, this case seemingly corresponds more to a "multiple selection" than the previous case. Note that multi-selecting the same cells one by one instead (with Ctrl + Click), and pasting, will result in the first error message: "Insert into multiple selection not possible". In my opinion, the main issue described here is that the first error message is not suitable, as there is not multiple selection. A solution would be to either: - Use a more relevant error message, along the lines of: "It is unclear from selected area where the data should be pasted." - Or, better: the paste should behave exactly like when selecting the range: it works by bypassing the rows that are not visible. Tested with: Version: 7.2.0.0.alpha1+ / LibreOffice Community Build ID: bb54d6d8241a06a6772052b77b67d6a4f686426c CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@86-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2021-06-11_20:14:38 Calc: threaded (Title of report was "EDITING: Pasting to autofiltered fields", so changed to something more descriptive)
I think, we should collect the "paste into range with filtered rows" problems into one bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 71519 ***