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Copying a cell value to multiple cells does not work

Open srmore opened this issue 8 years ago • 2 comments

When I try to copy a cell value and paste it in a region selected. Then the cell value is copied only in first cell. The behavior is inconsistent with the Microsoft spreadsheet's most common copy+paste behavior where we try to bulk update multiple cells.

Steps to reproduce

Set a cell value "ABC" in any one cell. Copy the cell using CTRL+C Select a region in spreadsheet where selection highlights multiple cells. Paste the cell value using CTRL+V

Expected: All cells which are highlighted in selection should have the new value Actual: Only first cell from the selected region is getting the new value.

srmore avatar Jan 29 '18 11:01 srmore

Thank you for the report. This use case was overlooked when implementing the copy-paste functionality. Which version you are using 1.x or 2.x?

johannesh2 avatar Jan 31 '18 07:01 johannesh2

I was informed that this functionality has not been implemented at all and has not been working in any Spreadsheet version before. Although we aim to provide a good usability and Excel can be considered as a good reference for that, we are not providing 1-to-1 feature parity. I'm keeping this in the backlog high priority, but I don't think this counts as a warranty bug fix.

johannesh2 avatar Jan 31 '18 07:01 johannesh2