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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Sep 30 16:53:32 -0700 2005 ------- Hmmm... your answer made me investigate how Calc and Excel compare regarding cut/copy and paste behavior. Excel maintains an active clipboard selection, along with the "crawling ants", until the user performs any editing or starts a new selection. Once the user types something into a cell, the clipboard is cleared and the crawling ants disappear. Actually this is incorrect behavior which differs from the standard cut & paste behavior in most applications. When users cut/copy data to the clipboard they expect it to stay there... However Excel can use the (proprietary) Office Clipboard, which maintains a history of cut and copied items. I'm not sure how many people actually use the Office Clipboard or are even aware of it, but personally I don't use it. Calc, on the other hand, behaves correcly - the contents of the clipboard is maintained until the user clears it. So this is an advantage for Calc, at least for people who don't use any special clipboard enhancements. The remaining question is, as you've correctly pointed out, how long to show the crawling ants? In my opinion the answer is: Until the user edits any cell, or starts a new selection. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
