GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 317445
Selection and Autofilter - filtered rows are selected
Last modified: 2005-09-29 13:41:37 UTC
Please describe the problem: When viewing a filtered subset of data using autofilter, making a multi row selections expands to a contiguous selection of the unfiltered data. This causes problems, if you want to export some data via the clipboard from a subset based on autofilter. Worst case is that you could accidentally transmit data that is not desired to be released. Steps to reproduce: 1. Enter some data on muliple rows 2. Add an autofilter to the sheet 3. Using autofilter, show a sparse subset (Eg rows B,D,F,H) 4. Select/copy the data 5. Paste into another sheet, or into an external app. Actual results: * Data from C,E,G is also copied. Expected results: Data from the filtered rows only should be copied/pasted, and condensed to a dense rectangular selection. Does this happen every time? Yes Other information: I suspect this going to be fairly difficult to implement, and the work around is to add a column with your selection criteria in an =IF(...,"SELECT","") formula, then sort by that, and then make your selection/copy whatever. This requires to be able to edit the file though which is inconvenient if it is read only.
Created attachment 52793 [details] Example of autofilter selection
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 315853 ***