If any block of cells is copied to somewhere else on a worksheet, the new copy is selected; however if you want to changed the selected range to copy elewhere, holding down the shift key and pressing the left or up key moves the end of the selection to cell A1, and pressing the down or right key moves the end of the selection down or right relative to cell A1.
I can confirm with LO 4.3.4.1, win7. duplicate of bug 42535 ?
I can confirm with Version: 4.4.0.0.beta2+ Build ID: e1de94244c1b0419c1c3415c02381e8b7a87abe0 TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@46-TDF, Branch:libreoffice-4-4, Time: 2014-12-14_11:45:23
Setting status to NEW as this appears to have already been confirmed
Bug 42535 appears to be related to this one, the difference being the use of Ctrl+Shift+Arrow vs Shift+Arrow, respectively; so they may or may not have the same cause and be the same bug.
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