RE: move and paste behaviour

[Phillip Shelton <shelton usq edu au>]

> -----Original Message-----
> I've installed Gnumeric 1.0.1 from the GnomeHide RPMs for my sister,
> and it works nicely for her use, she's especially happy about frozen
> panes (no more hiding and unhiding columns).
>
> She finds the behaviour wrt to formatting when she moves or copies
> cells inconsistent.  Most irritating to her is the fact that the
> formating is removed from the source even if the moved cell(s) are
> using the default column (or row) formatting.

Slightly confused about the symptom here. Are you expecting that whatever
the formatting is on the cells before they were moved should be on the cells
after they are moved? 

>  She also doesn't like
> that she needs to use Paste Special all the time to copy the content
> only.

Gnumeric is only following the behaviour of Excel 97 and earlier.

Phill