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A drag inside a table selected text in the cell where it started and never left that cell, so there was no way to select a range of cells with the pointer. docs/ui-parity.md listed it as missing ("no cell-range selection by dragging across cells"). The engine already had a cell range (table.selectCells), and Merge Cells, Shading, Borders, Cell Margins and Align read it, but no gesture set it and the canvas did not show it.

PowerPoint for Mac's steps for merging cells start with "drag the pointer across the cells that you want to merge", and the steps for deleting cell content say that the cell itself is not deleted: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/merge-split-or-delete-table-cells-in-powerpoint-d58e60ea-8994-4356-b1ef-5437ea59fd9b. Shift and the arrow keys extend a cell selection: https://web.archive.org/web/20231103075911/https://www.indezine.com/products/powerpoint/learn/tables/2013/select-table-rows-columns-ppt.html. Copy and Cut as tab-separated text, Backspace, the return to a text selection, and the merged-cell growth follow DeckCraft's existing text and table commands; the pages above do not describe them.

What changes:

• While the caret is in a table cell, a drag into another cell of the table selects the cells between the two, and the canvas shades them. Back in the first cell, the drag selects text there again. A range that touches a merged cell takes in all of it.
• With a range selected, Shift+arrow moves the cell the range was extended to; the cell it started from stays.
• Run and paragraph formatting (bold, font, size, alignment and the rest) apply to the selected cells only. Before, they applied to every cell of the table.
• Delete and Backspace clear the text of the selected cells and keep the table. Copy and Cut take their text, with a tab between cells and a line per row.
• Shading, Borders, Cell Margins and Align on a range take in the merged cells it touches.
• A press in the table while a range is selected puts the caret in the cell under the pointer, or starts a new range when dragged.
• ROADMAP.md and docs/ui-parity.md record it.

Tests:

• dragging_across_cells_selects_a_range_of_cells drags across cells and back, extends with Shift+arrow, formats, deletes, cuts, clicks back into a cell, and covers ranges that reach into a merged cell. It fails without the range on drag (the selection stays in the first cell), and it fails when the formatting filter, the Delete step, Shift+arrow, the merged-cell growth or the Cut text is taken out.

Checks:

• cargo test -p deckcraft-engine (377 library tests: 376 passed, 1 ignored)
• cargo test -p deckcraft-ui-egui --lib table
• cargo clippy -p deckcraft-engine -p deckcraft-ui-egui --all-targets -- -D warnings
• cargo fmt --all -- --check, cargo xtask assets, cargo xtask layers

On Windows 11 (x86-64) with rustc 1.99.1, on 68c2177 (main at 38d2ade merged in):

• status::tests::a_long_language_name_leaves_the_notes_button_clickable fails on main at 38d2ade without this change (2 runs of 2); open Tests: the Notes-button test clicks where the button is laid out, so it passes without Inter #1300 fixes it.
• On 68c2177 with Tests: the Notes-button test clicks where the button is laid out, so it passes without Inter #1300 merged in, cargo xtask ci passes its 8 steps: 1,876 tests passed, 0 failed, 6 ignored.

The branch has main at 38d2ade merged in; the ROADMAP.md conflict kept both lines, and the docs/ui-parity.md conflict kept main's new row for clicking a text box frame next to this change's table cells row.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Select table-cell ranges by dragging or using Shift+arrow keys; ranges include merged cells in full.
  • Copy selected cell text, and apply formatting only to cells in the selected range.
• Bug Fixes
  • Delete or cut selected cell text without removing the table; undo restores cleared text.
  • Selected cells are highlighted. Returning a drag to its starting cell resumes text selection, and clicking a cell exits range selection to begin editing.

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The change adds table-cell range selection by dragging or using Shift+arrow. Selected ranges include touched merged cells. Copy, formatting, and Delete act on selected cells, and the canvas highlights the range.

Changes: Table Cell Range Selection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Select and display cell ranges crates/engine/src/cmd/table.rs, crates/engine/src/tools.rs, crates/engine/src/keys.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs	Dragging and Shift+arrow select table-cell ranges. Range bounds include touched merged cells. The canvas highlights selected cells.
Apply operations to selected cells crates/engine/src/cmd/table.rs, crates/engine/src/cmd/edit.rs, crates/engine/src/cmd/text.rs, crates/engine/src/tests.rs, docs/ui-parity.md, ROADMAP.md	Copy and Cut produce tab- and newline-separated selected-cell text. Delete clears selected-cell text without removing the table. Formatting applies only to selected cells. Tests and documentation cover the behavior.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant Tools
  participant TableHelpers
  participant CanvasOverlay
  User->>Tools: Drag from the starting cell to another cell
  Tools->>TableHelpers: Resolve the selected cell range
  TableHelpers-->>Tools: Return bounds expanded over merged cells
  CanvasOverlay->>TableHelpers: Resolve selected cells for the table
  CanvasOverlay-->>User: Shade the selected cells

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Possibly related PRs

• storytold/deckcraft#1006: Both PRs change format_run and format_para so table formatting applies to the selected cell range.

Suggested reviewers: nikitkara, pierrevbc, echelon

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 68c21

The table-cell selection change is ready to merge after normal checks; no new blocking issue was established.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 68c21

The change reuses existing editing and undo mechanisms and does not appear to expand access or privileges. Its main integration risk is keeping cell-range ownership consistent across pointer, keyboard and command interactions.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The inspected changes affect presentation content and clipboard output within the existing session authority. They do not establish a new identity, credential or cross-service authority transition; formatting cannot exceed its previous all-cells-per-target-table scope.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Copy, implicit cell deletion and keyboard range extension require the selected shape to match the range's table. Formatting separately filters ranges by table identity; a missing or mismatched range preserves the prior whole-table formatting fallback rather than expanding target-shape authority.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Selection ownership is not uniformly reset: Tab changes shape selection without clearing the stored cell range, and table commands without an explicit target can prefer that range's table. Both behaviors exist at the comparison base. This PR adds pointer reachability and highlighting for the range; the identified effect remains presentation-targeting consistency, not an established privilege-boundary bypass.

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Merged main at 38d2ade in 68c2177: the ROADMAP.md conflict kept both lines, and the docs/ui-parity.md conflict kept main's new text box frame row next to this change's table cells row. cargo xtask ci on 68c2177 with #1300 merged in (it fixes status::tests::a_long_language_name_leaves_the_notes_button_clickable, which fails on main on Windows): 8 steps, 1,876 passed, 0 failed, 6 ignored.