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Bug 733466 - Documentation needs to be clearer about copying discontinuous areas/ranges
Documentation needs to be clearer about copying discontinuous areas/ranges
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Gnumeric
Classification: Applications
Component: Documentation
1.12.x
Other Windows
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Andreas J. Guelzow
Jody Goldberg
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-07-20 17:56 UTC by bhmcr
Modified: 2014-07-27 20:12 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description bhmcr 2014-07-20 17:56:24 UTC 
I tried to copy/cut & paste discontinuous areas. After using Ctrl and clicking several different cells I right-clicked "Copy" and got the following warning: "Copy does not support multiple ranges". I tried "Cut" and got the same result. According to the manual one is supposed to do this.
Can you help?
Thanks!

Barr
Comment 1 André Klapper 2014-07-20 22:08:58 UTC 
Also see bug 517710
Comment 2 Andreas J. Guelzow 2014-07-21 03:50:55 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 19827 ***
Comment 3 Andreas J. Guelzow 2014-07-21 03:51:54 UTC 
You wrote "According to the manual one is supposed to do this.", where in the manual did you see this?
Comment 4 bhmcr 2014-07-22 16:47:30 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> You wrote "According to the manual one is supposed to do this.", where in the
> manual did you see this?


I saw it in the Gnumeric Manual v. 1.10, 5.6.2.2. Discontinuous Selections, and, Simple Copy and Move.
Comment 5 Andreas J. Guelzow 2014-07-22 19:44:48 UTC 
I guess Simple Copy and Move isn't clear about the fact that this only works for simple selections. We need to clarify that better.
Comment 6 Andreas J. Guelzow 2014-07-27 20:12:41 UTC 
I have added an appropriate note to the documentation. Please note that this addition will only appear in the online GNumeric manual after the next update of that manual.

This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.