In your spreadsheet you have hidden a few rows in a cell range. Now you want to copy, delete, or format only the currently visible rows.

The Calc result depends on how the cells have been hidden, either by a filter or manually.

This is what you do

This is what you get

Case a) Some cells are hidden by applying AutoFilters, standard filters or advanced filters.

Now you copy, delete, move, or format a selection of currently visible cells.

Case a) Only the visible cells of the selection are copied, deleted, moved, or formatted.

Case b) Some cells are hidden using the Hide command
in the context menu of the row or column headers,
or by applying an outline

Again you copy, delete, move, or format a selection of currently visible cells.

Case b) All cells of the selection, including the hidden cells, are copied, deleted, moved, or formatted

With Calc in OpenOffice.org 2 or StarOffice 8, now you will not accidentally delete cells that are temporarily hidden by any filter. This is an improvement compared to OpenOffice.org 1 or StarOffice 7 and before.

Note that pasting cells is not covered by this change.
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