OO 2.0 Question 9965

John Bailo

I see that.

Of course, it's not the standard usage of cut and paste between apps the world has used for 10 years - it's a special, strange OSS version where you highlight the Calc data and drag it onto a table icon.

There's no reason whatsoever (besides the incompetence of the OSS developers) that you shouldn't be able to cut and paste back and forth directly between the spreadsheet and the tables. And why can't you file-browse-navigate to your various OO Calc documents and import data from selected ranges into new or existing Base tables?

These are standard, expected, widely-used features in MS Office (and other closed-source office suites) for 10 years.

Linux: 10 years behind, and counting.

If you say so, but then again you are you, an OSS user with very low standards for an office tool.

Looks like a typical, confused OSS hack job to me. I tried to drag-copy 3 rows from Calc to Base, but it would only ever paste 2 rows in the table: it always buttumes the first row is the field name, and there's no option to tell it otherwise. Same if you try to paste data into an existing table - it won't paste the first row.

And this is just simple cut and paste operations to work with data from spreadsheets. It's so bad, in so many ways, there's really no point in going on to discuss the queries, forms and reports. Maybe they're "better", maybe not. I won't even take the time to look until they nail down some of the most basic data table handling issues.

Like all pre-alpha quality OSS slopware, you'll defend it as a beta version. Fine. When the final "release" comes out we'll see it it's any better.

If you think this slopware has a prayer of replacing MS Office-MS Access, now or at *anytime* in the future, you're very wrong.