Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 146758
Cannot unhide rows in calc
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:59 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Description of problem: If you hide a row in calc, you cannot later show the hidden row. Columns work fine, this problem is only with rows. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openoffice.org-1.1.3-2.5.fc3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.highlight row #5 in an empty calc spreadsheet 2.In the pulldown menus: (Format -> Rows -> Hide) row #5 is now hidden 3.highlight rows #4 and #6 4.In the pulldown menus: (Format -> Rows -> Show) row #5 remains hidden Actual Results: Row # 5 is not shown Expected Results: Row #5 should be shown Additional info: You can repeat the above steps for a colummn to see how it should work. I mark this as a "loss of data" bug because I have data that I cannot access in my spreadsheets, hidden behind un-show-able rows!!!
It happens here, too. openoffice.org-1.1.3-2.5.fc3
See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=289013 Temporary workaround: Copy the row previous and the row following to the clipboard, then paste back in somewhere else. The hidden rows were copied/pasted along with the two visible ones. I couldn't find anything in the OOo bugtracker but didn't think it appropriate to file something there as I'm not running their latest version (1.1.4 as of today, compared to my openoffice.org-1.1.3-2.5.fc3)
Thanks for the workaround Adam! At least I can get to the data now. I'm pretty sure this bug is due to some RH patch, I tried an official OOo release a few months ago (1.1.3 as I recall) and I do not remember seeing this problem.
Technically yes it is a Red Hat patch, I patched the Novell patch for this in our 1.1.2 version, but it seems to have broken again even though the patch has not changed.
It's fixed on 1.3 branch of ooo-build.
will be fixed in next update (1.1.3-7)
looks good in 1.1.3-9