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I'm running a new install of ver. 3.5.1.2 on Kubuntu 11.10. It appears that the "paste-special" function, which I use constantly, no longer works like it used to, and this is a major annoyance.

Old, expected behavior:
1. I copy an entire row in a spreadsheet into the system clipboard.
2. I select a number of cells in a column, at another location (or even adjacent to the row copied), to indicate the rows I want to paste the copied row into. 3. I right click on the selected cells, then click the "paste special" item in the popup menu, then the "shift cells down" parameter in the next popup window. RESULT: the selected rows indicated by the selected cells are pushed down, and their vacated space is filled with copies of the originally copied row.

New, disturbing behavior:
1. I copy an entire row in a spreadsheet into the system clipboard.
2. I select a number of cells in a column, at another location (or even adjacent to the row copied), to indicate the rows I want to paste the copied row into. 3. I right click on the selected cells, and the popup menu simply does not contain a paste special item to select. Trying instead the Edit>Paste special menu item or Ctrl+Shift+v does absolutely nothing. Doing a paste-special into a single row works find. Multiple rows is not a possibility.

The workaround: First insert blank rows (which achieves the desired push-down of existing rows), then just do a multiple row standard paste into them. The problem: this is a more involved, less direct process.

Is paste-special broken in this version of LO, or is this the new way it's to be done?

Thanks for any thoughts...

t.

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