Issue 52810 - Reassign the function of Delete key on the keyboard
Summary: Reassign the function of Delete key on the keyboard
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 9392
Alias: None
Product: Calc
Classification: Application
Component: editing (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.0 Beta
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: requirements
QA Contact: issues@sc
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Keywords: oooqa
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Reported: 2005-08-03 07:25 UTC by master2
Modified: 2013-08-07 15:12 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description master2 2005-08-03 07:25:14 UTC 
Changing from MS Excel noticed that delete key brings up a "delete contents"
menu rather than clears the current cell or group of cells. Learned that
backspace does that, just by coinsidence, although was trying to find anything
in help about it. I am sure that some users will also notice this and I wonder
if it is a good idea to reassign the "clear" function to the "delete" key and
its current pop-up menu to some other key or better the mouse "right-click" menu.
Thank you
Comment 1 frank 2005-08-03 08:18:53 UTC 
IMHO this isn't a good idea because mostly all users of OOo Calc who are not
used to the Excel way would submit a bugreport about it. Also the Calc approach
is the more logical one as backspace is used also in other applications to erase
just the text. DEL in this case gives the user the freedom to choose.

Re-assignerd to requirements to decide.

Frank
Comment 2 drensink 2005-08-11 03:39:03 UTC 
This is a duplicate of Issue 9392 opened in November of 2002.  It is still
counterintuitive to a lot of people, so there should be an option to swap the
behavior of the backspace and del keys for those users that want to change it
from the default.  All anyone has asked for to date is an option to change it
from the default, not to actually change the default for current users.  If
changing the defaults is why providing the option (not default) has been held up
for 2.5 years, that is not a good reason.

Regardless, this should be marked as a duplicate of 9392.
Comment 3 lohmaier 2005-08-14 19:28:32 UTC 
marking duplicate

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 9392 ***
Comment 4 lohmaier 2005-08-14 19:29:05 UTC 
closing duplicate.