Wol <antli...@youngman.org.uk> writes: > On 06/02/2019 22:33, Piet van Oostrum wrote: > > Wols Lists wrote: > > > On 06/02/19 16:08, Piet van Oostrum wrote: > > > Wol's lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> writes: > > > > > >> Dunno whether this is a bug or a design decision or what, but it's a > > >> pretty nasty breach of the principle ... > > >> > > >> Why, when I click on a cell, does calc NOT select the clicked cell? > > >> > > >> Okay, I know the answer - it's a hyperlink. BUT. > > >> > > >> I was editing a csv, I've got a column of email addresses, and some > of > > >> them have been hyperlinked, some of them haven't. I don't want > > >> hyperlinks, I didn't ask for hyperlinks, and I can't see any way of > > >> easily removing them! > > >> > > > Format > Clear Direct Formatting (Ctrl-M on my Mac). > > > > > But clicking on the cell doesn't select it so <ctrl>M doesn't work! :-) > > > > You could click in a nearby cell and move to it with the arrows. > > Sorry, I don't know whether it's my poor English or that you aren't a native > speaker, but you seem > to be completely missing my main point. > > THE NEED FOR A WORK-AROUND INDICATES THE EXISTENCE OF A MAJOR UI FUCK-UP! > > Clicking in a cell to select it is such a basic piece of spreadsheet > functionality, that for it to > not work is a major problem. Things like that should work ONE HUNDRED percent > of the time, not > ninety-nine percent. Any safety guy will tell you that something that nearly > always works is > actually far more dangerous than something that keeps going wrong. > > Oh - and I've just played with the same spreadsheet in Excel. That fucks it > up too, just not quite > so dangerously. It selects the cell, which is good, but launches the link at > the same time. So at > least you get a clear visual surprise, unlike Calc which just silently fails > to work as expected > ...
No need to SHOUT. I agree that selecting a cell just by clicking is a basic functionality. And so is following a link when you click on it. So now there is a conflict of interests. It would be nice if you had the option to choose which one you prefer, because this is user-dependent. Apparently LO choose to give the link priority. So if you don't like that, switch off the links. See the part of my post that you cut out. -- Piet van Oostrum <pie...@vanoostrum.org> WWW: http://piet.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
