Re: De-selecting cells

[Jean Bréfort <jean brefort normalesup org>]

Looks like this is not implemented in gnumeric. Please file a
bug/enhancement report at bugzilla.gnome.org.

Regards,
Jean

Le dimanche 14 février 2010 à 14:43 -0800, Albert Schlef a écrit :
> I know I can add cells to the selection by holding CONTROL pressed while
> clicking on the cell(s).
>
> But how can I "de-select" a selected cell? I tried holding CONTROL while
> clicking the cell again (this is a UI convention in Windows), but this
> doesn't work.
>
> Perhaps it'd help if I describe why I need this. My scenario is as follows:
> I have a bunch of numbers:
>
>    2.0
>    0.37
>    1.4
>    0.13
>    2.1
>    0.75
>    2.8
>    0.34
>
> These represent sizes of files (in GB). And I'm trying to figure out what
> combinations of them would sum up nicely to 4.4 (that's the capacity of a
> DVD disk. I'm burning files into a disk.) To this purpose I'm selecting some
> of the numbers and look at Gnumeric's status bar: it has a nice "Sum=???"
> feature. That's quick and easy. But... While I'm experimenting with the
> possible combinations I want to de-select some of the numbers and choose
> others. I know that in Windows it's possible to de-select elements by
> pressing CONTROL + mouse click, but it seems this doesn't work in Gnumeric.
>
> I'm using Gnumeric 1.9.9. Ubuntu 9.10.