Bug 59751

Summary:	EDITING: Make Alt-ArrowKey swap paragraphs, rows and columns
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Kumāra <kumara.bhikkhu>
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	cno, libreoffice-ux-advise, thomas.lendo
Priority:	medium	Keywords:	needsUXEval
Version:	3.6.3.2 release
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Bug Blocks:	98259, 108364

Description Kumāra 2013-01-23 09:08:15 UTC

This is a very old Lotus WordPro feature that I love and miss. In case the summary isn't clear enough, let me explain.

Say you have a table with 4 columns. You decide that the 2nd column is better placed as the last. As it is now, you would have to create a column to the right of the 4th, copy the content of column 2, paste it in column 5, then delete the empty column 2. And, oh, you probably would also have fixed the now messed up column widths!

With this feature, it's just a matter of pressing Alt-RightArrorKey twice. That's it.

This should also work for rows in tables and paragraphs (which include numbering/bullet lists).

It's a very elegant feature.

Comment 1 Kumāra 2014-04-09 02:31:37 UTC

I'm surprised no one is interested in this one. :-(
It's a great (and cool) time-saver, you know?

Comment 2 Thomas Lendo 2018-10-21 18:43:12 UTC

Adding needsUXEval to have some discussion about it. Maybe something similar is already planned or maybe this is obsolete because since 2014 many changes were implemented.

Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2019-07-27 10:02:00 UTC

Started from Navigator Promote/Demote feature and stumbled over the existing function: ctrl+alt+up/down does the trick (move up/down). Works perfectly WordPro-ish for me.