Merge PR #3268

docs/ui-parity.md

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 # UI parity
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-03 · **Change:** minor (a linked cell's menu edits, opens or removes the link; earlier: Display options for this workbook: sheet tabs and scroll bars; earlier: dragging over row or column headers in point mode extends the reference; earlier: a picture on the system clipboard pastes as a floating picture at the active cell with Cmd/Ctrl+V or Paste (#699); earlier: frozen columns keep their text, gridlines and merged borders whole while the sheet scrolls (#2544); earlier: every Paste Special option has its access key; earlier: the Draw tab's live stroke preview uses the pen's colour and thickness; earlier: copy quotes only cells with a tab or line break, as Excel does; earlier: Ctrl+. Next Corner of Selection; earlier: dragging the selection's border onto data asks before replacing it; earlier: RefEdit reference boxes in dialogs: Goal Seek, Solver and Data Analysis use them, the arrow keys select while a dialog is collapsed and F4 cycles a reference's anchors; earlier: Python cells: Python mode in the formula bar; earlier: Insert › Equation and the equation editor; earlier: every floating object selects, resizes from eight handles and deletes with the keyboard; earlier: Formulas › Error Checking › Trace Error; trace arrows stay through a zoom (#3097); earlier: Page Setup sets the page order, Down, then over or Over, then down, which printing, the print preview, Page Break Preview and Page Layout view follow; earlier: Formulas › Function Library as labelled buttons with category menus; Recently Used and the Insert Function categories; Esc leaves a File-page text field before closing the view; earlier: checkbox cells print as boxes; Ctrl+arrow and Ctrl+Shift+arrow while pointing a formula reference; editing a hyperlink loads its existing fields; AutoSum over a selected row puts its total to the right; ribbon catalog count 276 / 292) · **Target:** Microsoft Excel (Microsoft 365), Excel for Mac 16.113.4
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-03 · **Change:** minor (Highlight the active cell's row, a global preference in File › Options › General; earlier: a linked cell's menu edits, opens or removes the link; earlier: Display options for this workbook: sheet tabs and scroll bars; earlier: dragging over row or column headers in point mode extends the reference; earlier: a picture on the system clipboard pastes as a floating picture at the active cell with Cmd/Ctrl+V or Paste (#699); earlier: frozen columns keep their text, gridlines and merged borders whole while the sheet scrolls (#2544); earlier: every Paste Special option has its access key; earlier: the Draw tab's live stroke preview uses the pen's colour and thickness; earlier: copy quotes only cells with a tab or line break, as Excel does; earlier: Ctrl+. Next Corner of Selection; earlier: dragging the selection's border onto data asks before replacing it; earlier: RefEdit reference boxes in dialogs: Goal Seek, Solver and Data Analysis use them, the arrow keys select while a dialog is collapsed and F4 cycles a reference's anchors; earlier: Python cells: Python mode in the formula bar; earlier: Insert › Equation and the equation editor; earlier: every floating object selects, resizes from eight handles and deletes with the keyboard; earlier: Formulas › Error Checking › Trace Error; trace arrows stay through a zoom (#3097); earlier: Page Setup sets the page order, Down, then over or Over, then down, which printing, the print preview, Page Break Preview and Page Layout view follow; earlier: Formulas › Function Library as labelled buttons with category menus; Recently Used and the Insert Function categories; Esc leaves a File-page text field before closing the view; earlier: checkbox cells print as boxes; Ctrl+arrow and Ctrl+Shift+arrow while pointing a formula reference; editing a hyperlink loads its existing fields; AutoSum over a selected row puts its total to the right; ribbon catalog count 276 / 292) · **Target:** Microsoft Excel (Microsoft 365), Excel for Mac 16.113.4
 
 Interaction, controls and feel, against Excel. Part of [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md).
 **UI/UX fidelity: ~55% ready, 50–80 h** (estimated). Ribbon command coverage is measured
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 | Click/drag/Shift/Ctrl selection, multi-area selection | rectangular drag works in one direction only in some cases (#28) |
 | Cursor while dragging cells, headers, freeze handles and objects | stable for the active drag (#936); Draw tools keep their crosshair; header arrows and a custom cell cursor remain unimplemented |
 | Selection outline glides to a new selection (Excel: "Provide feedback with animation") | done (10-11): 0.12 s, decelerating, with the fill and fill handle; View ▸ Animations (`view.animations`) turns it off. The timing is an estimate, not yet measured against Excel; the system's reduced-motion setting isn't followed yet |
+| Highlight the active cell's row (no Excel equivalent; Focus Cell tints the row and the column) | done (11-03): File › Options › General, off by default; a preference for every sheet and workbook, nothing saved in the file. Tints over the fills and under the text, in Normal and Page Layout views (`options.highlightActiveRow`) |
 | Fill handle: drag to fill series, double-click to fill down, right-drag menu | fill done (Ctrl+drag swaps copy and series; month patterns use the workbook's 1900 or 1904 date system); right-drag menu partial: Copy Cells, Fill Series, Fill Formatting Only, Fill Without Formatting, and from a date Fill Days, Fill Weekdays, Fill Months and Fill Years, then Series…; a left-drag leaves an Auto Fill Options button with the same fill choices (gone once the workbook changes or the selection moves); Linear/Growth Trend and Flash Fill missing |
 | Drag-move and drag-copy cells (border drag, Ctrl/Option, Shift to insert) | border drag moves (M3) and asks "There's already data here. Do you want to replace it?" before replacing cells that hold data (`range.move`, #3136); Ctrl/Option to copy and Shift to insert are not wired to the border drag yet (reorder whole columns by their headers instead) |
 | In-cell editing, Enter/Tab movement, Alt/Option+Enter line breaks | done |
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 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-03 | minor | Highlight the active cell's row: a global preference that tints the whole row, off by default |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | The formula bar's bottom edge is a resize handle: dragging it sets the bar's height in whole lines, up to half the window, and dragging it to one line collapses it; expanding (the chevron, Ctrl+Shift+U) returns to the dragged height, which is kept with the UI preferences. `view.expandFormulaBar {lines}` sets it (#1246) |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | Cell context menu on a cell with a link: Edit Hyperlink… (the link dialog, titled Edit Hyperlink and filled with the link), Open Hyperlink and Remove Hyperlink, as in Excel, instead of Link… (#2120) |
 | 2026-11-03 | minor | File › Options › Display options for this workbook: Show horizontal scroll bar, Show vertical scroll bar and Show sheet tabs (`view.showHorizontalScrollBar`, `view.showVerticalScrollBar`, `view.showSheetTabs`), saved with the workbook; with the sheet tabs off the scroll bar takes the bar, with the scroll bar off the tabs do, with both off the bar goes, and without the vertical scroll bar the grid takes its width (#3101) |