Dragging and Dropping Within a Collabora Office Document

There are many options for moving or copying objects using drag-and-drop. Text sections, drawing objects, graphics, form controls, hyperlinks, cell ranges, and many more can be moved or copied with the mouse.

Note that the mouse pointer displays a plus sign when copying and an arrow when creating a link or hyperlink.

Mouse Pointer

Description

Mouse pointer moving data

Moving

Mouse pointer copying data

Copying

Mouse pointer inserting link

Creating a link


If you press or Shift+ while releasing the mouse button, you can control whether the object is copied, moved, or a link is created.

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If you drag objects out of the Navigator, you can specify in the submenu of the Navigator's Drag Mode icon whether to copy the object, insert it as a link or insert it as a hyperlink.

Tip Icon

You can cancel a drag-and-drop operation in Collabora Office at any time by pressing the Esc key before releasing the mouse button.


Copying Graphics Between Documents

Copying Spreadsheet Areas to Text Documents

Copying Graphics From the Gallery

Adding Graphics to the Gallery

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