Right click menu doesnt appear in main entry box in OpenOffice Calc

[tom bick]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

After copying info from a cell (text), you cannot 'right click' on the main 'entry box' at the top and bring up the menu to paste in copied text. Being able to do this is standard in 'other' spreadsheets.
This is a very handy feature, that I am surprised does not yet exist in openoffice

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Sep 15 22:37:25 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/lib/openoffice/program:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Parthan SR (parth-technofreak)]

Thank you for taking your time to file this bug and helping make Ubuntu better. The input line which you call as main entry box is mainly used to display the contents of the cells, especially the actual formulas and expressions used behind the value displayed in the cell. Thus it doesn't have a right click menu at all. One can select the test in a cell, cut or copy it, click on some other cell selecting it, click on the input line and press Ctrl+V to copy whatever was cut or copied previously. Instead, it is possible to right click on the target cell and select Paste from the menu. The input line is mainly for entering expressions and formulas used to fill the corresponding cell.

This is the implementation in OpenOffice and if you still consider this as a bug, feel free to report it in the upstream issue tracker (http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/) as well and link the upstream bug here. Thanks in advance.

[positivek (anonyhole)]

@Parthan SR:
The usual behavior for text- and number-based entry boxes, no matter the purpose) is to allow the context menu with Cut, Copy, Paste, (Undo). Indeed, these are already allowed through keyboard shortcuts in this application already. The OO.o implementation is non-standard and lacks a simple expected feature.

The upstream bug is linked.

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

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There are no new official OpenOffice.org releases in Ubuntu packaging anymore => Won't Fix

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