Bug 86805

Summary: FORMATTING: Format painter tool does not work between Calc (spreadsheet) documents ("books")
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: pb <blicher>
Component: CalcAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: enhancement CC: libreoffice, raal
Priority: medium    
Version: 4.2.6.3 release   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: All   
See Also: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53056
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45647
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Bug Blocks: 114912, 141848    

Description pb 2014-11-27 23:27:34 UTC 
1. Open Calc document A, which contains formatting.
2. Open new or used Calc document B, which either does or doesn't contain formatting.
3. Select cell or column in calc document A.
4. Click paintbrush tool
5. Observe that in document A, the paintbucket cursor is visible over cells that you hover over.
6. Change windows (using OS) to document B.
7. Observe that in document B, the paintbucket cursor is NOT visible over cells that you hover over.
8. Clicking in document B has no effect.

Expected behavior:  Be able to paint format in document B just as one can in document A.

I note that Excel does permit copying formatting from one document to another using the paint format tool.
Comment 1 raal 2014-11-28 15:52:07 UTC 
I can confirm, setting as enhancement.
Comment 2 A (Andy) 2014-11-28 19:06:27 UTC 
I can also confirm - setting to NEW
Comment 3 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2024-05-07 06:51:50 UTC 
*** Bug 160748 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Charles Williams 2024-05-07 09:13:25 UTC 
IME, the second window doesn't have to contain a different document for the gug to manifest, it can be a second view for Document A.