Bug 67369

Summary: EDITING: "Select all" only selects table if that table is at top of document
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: crxssi
Component: WriterAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: minor CC: cno
Priority: medium    
Version: 3.3.0 release   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Description crxssi 2013-07-26 19:54:02 UTC 
If a table is the first thing in a Writer document, you cannot use "file->select all" (or control-) to select the entire document, even if you are outside the table.

Steps to reproduce:

* Start a new Writer document
* Insert a table
* Go outside the table at the end of the document and type some stuff
* Leave the cursor in the text outside the table
* Use File->Select All or press control-A to attempt to select everything
* Notice that only the table is selected.  If you try Control-A again, there is no change.

Work-around:

* In the above example, insert a blank line before the table.
* NOW you can select the whole document by clicking outside the table and using File-Select All.

We encountered this bug in LO 4.1, and then discovered it is in LO 4.0, OO 3.4, and OO 3.2.1.  So it has probably been around a loooong time.
Comment 1 Cor Nouws 2013-07-26 21:59:32 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)

> We encountered this bug in LO 4.1, and then discovered it is in LO 4.0, OO
> 3.4, and OO 3.2.1.  So it has probably been around a loooong time.

Hi,

thanks for writing. Indeed it's very old behaviour, related to the way table-text object are handled in the document. Ah well. Not easy to change.

(Happily, when you work with styles properly, Ctrl-A is not needed that often ;) )

Regards,
Cor
Comment 2 Ivan Timofeev (retired) 2013-07-28 06:20:19 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 37606 ***