Bug 47101 - EDITING: Selection tool - the problem with objects without margin (adjacent to one of the page edges)
Summary: EDITING: Selection tool - the problem with objects without margin (adjacent t...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version: 3.5.0 release
Hardware: All All
: medium minor
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Reported: 2012-03-08 07:29 UTC by Tom
Modified: 2015-01-23 16:30 UTC (History)
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Description Tom 2012-03-08 07:29:10 UTC 
Problem description: 

There is no possibility of a selection of objects spanning the entire width of the page or adjacent to one of the page edges (assuming that the page has margins set to 0). To select several objects, the selection area must cover the whole of the elements and even more, but the selection tools can not go beyond the page.
Problem shows up when you have several objects arranged in layers one above the other and when we try to group them.


Platform (if different from the browser): 
              
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/536.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1061.1 Safari/536.3

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LibreOffice 3.5.0rc3 
Build ID: 7e68ba2-a744ebf-1f241b7-c506db1-7d53735
Comment 1 sasha.libreoffice 2012-05-30 08:49:39 UTC 
Thanks for bugreport
Workaround: select as many objects as possible, then press Shift and hold, then select remaining objects by mouse clicks.
Comment 2 sasha.libreoffice 2012-12-22 10:57:43 UTC 
> the selection tools can not go beyond the page
Reproduced in 3.6.4 on RFR 17 64 bit
It is very unhandy to select objects with this bug. But from another side, Writer is not intended for graphical editing. We have Draw.
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2015-01-05 17:51:45 UTC 
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Comment 4 Beluga 2015-01-23 16:30:51 UTC 
Yeah, it should be possible to start selecting outside the page.

Win 7 Pro 64-bit Version: 4.5.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 07e84cae983c08afdba03018413a19d01abb3006
TinderBox: Win-x86@62-TDF, Branch:MASTER, Time: 2015-01-19_06:15:38

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