LO3.3.1-Older OO "Feature" still in LO - How to disable "pop-up" Menus?

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#1

Ya' know the "Table" one that appears sometimes when you click something in a
table.

This also happens with other operations; the unwanted appearance of a menu
when there is no intended use of it, nor an immediate need for that menu.
Of course, iIf I wanted this menu, I'd already have it there, and if I
didn't, I'd place it there myself.

Another example of a program interface default that defies logic; following
this logic, nearly every option would appear whenever you did anything - for
the presumption is the user is unable to configure their own product.

#2

emarkay wrote:

Ya' know the "Table" one that appears sometimes when you click something
in a table.

This also happens with other operations; ...<snipped> if I wanted this
menu, I'd already have it there...<snipped>

Bump on this. Exactly what I was looking for an answer to.
Doesn't anyone know how to keep those pop-outs from popping?

#3

JeepNut <JeepNut@zoho.com> writes:

> emarkay wrote:

Ya' know the "Table" one that appears sometimes when you click something
in a table.

This also happens with other operations; ...<snipped> if I wanted this
menu, I'd already have it there...<snipped>

> Bump on this. Exactly what I was looking for an answer to.
> Doesn't anyone know how to keep those pop-outs from popping?

I simply drag the "pop ups" to a menu bar, where they become a part of
the menu. They never pop up again.

HTH.

#4

I have never found these "pop up menus" to be useful. But that's just me.

Your solution works, but it eats up screen real estate. Does anyone have a way to stop the menus from popping up without losing screen space?

--David

#5

Hi :slight_smile:
In MS Office you can drag them to be the 2nd half of an existing toolbar. By
half i mean a variable amount down to perhaps just a thumbs width.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

PS
Q. Is your glass half full or half empty?

Zaphod. Hey!!! That's not my glass!!!!! Mine was much larger! And it was
full.

#6

Drag the offending menu to the middle of the page.
Then select ">View >Toolbars;
Uncheck the offending menu;

You may have to repeat this three or four times, before LibO gets the idea that you really don't want those menus to be displayed.

Sometimes you have to guess as the name of the menu. (I have more than fifty menus for extension that are of the pattern "Add On ##", where "##" is a number between 1 and 50. Personally, I think that extensions whose menu is of that pattern, should be pulled from distribution until the developer learns how to create extensions that don't require users to write their own documentation, to determine which menu goes with which functionality they were looking for.)

jonathon