Am Sonntag, den 19.08.2007, 19:08 -0500 schrieb Barbara Duprey: > Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote: > > Hi Marc, > > > > > >> As the last time I answered my recommendation is OO.o-Calc. > >> > > > > Are you (or is anybody else lurking here) aware of an issue for this? If > > not - Barbara or Marc, care to submit one? I mean, there should be a > > direct way, shouldn't it? > > > > Thanks & Ciao > > Frank > > > > > I'd be glad to submit an issue if there isn't one.
I'll step back, please do. Your view on this topic seems to be much clearer than mine. > My idea of how it > should work would extend the kind of data movement that can be done in > Writer (and I guess Calc) where you can select and copy a rectangular > portion of a cell grid, select the top left corner of the destination > cell grid, and paste. That would extend the current capability to use > copy to create/append. (It could even include generating new data base > records as needed if there is an auto-increment value for the key > field.) It would work in queries as well as tables. I love the way paste > works in Writer, it's very intuitive and makes short work of things > I've often had trouble with in MS Word (haven't tried any particularly > recent versions of that, so I don't know if you still have to select an > exactly equivalent area in the destination to be able to paste, but that > was necessary in all the versions I've worked with). > > Do you folks agree that this would be a reasonable request? Nothing could be better than a design matching the users practice. Marc --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
