Submitted by d bartlett on 2009/12/11 23:54
A few days ago, after executing Item/Select Item to select-hilight an entire row in an attempt to copy/paste that entire row from Address Book back into Address Book as a similar data row entry, some sort of selection default was altered such that now, when working within any grid and clicking on any cell within any row, the entire row is automatically selected-hilighted insted of just the cell.  Before the aforementioned copy/paste attempt only just the clicked-upon cell would initially be selected-hilighted, but now it's the entire row by default.  A ground-level result of this change is that I can no longer select a single cell and use keyboard Ctrl+c / Ctrl+V to do a simple simple copy / paste from one cell to another because the more complicated "What do you want to copy?" Menu gets activated instead.  How do I return to the former state where clicking on a cell selected-hilighted only the cell and entire row selection was accomplished only by means of Item/Select item instead of it now being the default selection state???  Using Version 0.9.24H5.
thank you
Doug Bartlett

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[quote=d bartlett]
How do I return to the former state where clicking on a cell selected-hilighted only the cell and entire row selection was accomplished only by means of Item/Select item instead of it now being the default selection state???[/quote]
 
You should be able to select just the cell contents by clicking within the cell's text, not beyond, then pressing Ctrl-A. Then you can copy and paste the text. Clicking elsewhere in the item usually selects the entire item. I doubt you've toggled a mode switch that has changed the program's behavior.
 
Jerome

Armando

2009/12/12 00:22

In reply to by JJSlote

ooops Jerome... you were there just before me.
I thing Doug talks about cell selection vs row selection, not "content editing".

JJSlote

2009/12/12 00:35

In reply to by Armando

[quote=Armando]
ooops Jerome... you were there just before me.
I thing Doug talks about cell selection vs row selection, not "content editing".
[/quote]
 
Indeed, I was just in time with an erroneous answer, but glad to have learned about Select Mode in the process. Thanks for the correction.

Jerome
 
 

Hi Doug,

Normally the the option is Grid >> Select mode >> Multi-Columns.

If that doesn't solve the problem -- I can't remember if that was a bug from v. H5 -- I suggest you either try the newest pre-release, or wait for the next one. Hopefully the next release will be pretty stable.



 

d bartlett

2009/12/14 19:10

In reply to by Armando

thanks Armando, you were right, Grid>>Select Mode>>Multi-Columns.  Many thanks.  Doug Bartlett