Bug 91440 - Conditional formatting not copying properly with format brush
Summary: Conditional formatting not copying properly with format brush
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
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4.3.7.2 release
Hardware: IA64 (Itanium) Windows (All)
: medium major
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Reported: 2015-05-21 19:53 UTC by J Carls
Modified: 2015-05-22 13:41 UTC (History)
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Description J Carls 2015-05-21 19:53:58 UTC
I have conditional formatting applied on cells that create subtotals for sections of a spreadsheet. There are two conditions, and the formulas are very simple. For example:

J51>I51  Conditional_format1
J51<I51  Conditional_format2

The conditional format is in (per the above example) J51. When I use "copy format" to copy the cell's format to another subtotal cell, the cell references are being treated as absolutes, meaning that subtotals farther down the sheet are still referring to row 51. 

It appears that this bug only applies to the format brush (I used double-click to invoke the persistent mode). If I use "Paste Special" with just "Format" it appears to copy the condition correctly.

One other variable: This spreadsheet started as an XLSX file and worked fine until possibly after I installed 4.3.7.2. After having a lot of problems with conditional formatting (which I did not have before), I saved it as an ODS file, but then discovered this copying problem when I reopened it and very few cells showed the formatting that their still existing conditional formats should have produced.
Comment 1 raal 2015-05-22 07:17:23 UTC
Hello ,
tested with LO 4.4.3, win7. When I copy the conditional format with format brush, then formula is adapted. PLease test with version 4.4. If bug still occurs for you, attach test file. Thank you
Comment 2 J Carls 2015-05-22 13:41:17 UTC
The "fresh" version appears to include the fix for this (until now, I had no idea that there were "still" and "fresh" versions, relying only on the software's built-in notifier). Thanks!