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Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Full Text Issue Listing |
| Summary: | its better to have a pop up for editing when some text is selected | ||||||||
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| Product: | Writer | Reporter: | vignesh <vignesh.ikiw> | ||||||
| Component: | viewing | Assignee: | AOO issues mailing list <issues> | ||||||
| Status: | UNCONFIRMED --- | QA Contact: | |||||||
| Severity: | Trivial | ||||||||
| Priority: | P3 | CC: | andra.bacanu | ||||||
| Version: | 4.1.0 | ||||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||||
| OS: | All | ||||||||
| Issue Type: | FEATURE | Latest Confirmation in: | --- | ||||||
| Developer Difficulty: | --- | ||||||||
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I have tried to find the “pop-up for formatting” in Open office Writer 4.1.1 AOO411m6(Build:9775) - Rev. 1617669, but it is not implemented. The “pop-up for formatting” in MS Word is called Mini Toolbar. It appears onscreen every time users right-click on the page area or when selecting text and moving the mouse over the Mini Toolbar. The Mini Toolbar can be partially disabled: so it will be visible only when right-clicking on the page area. This functionality is available for MS Word since 2007 and allows the users to change font style, increase/decrease the font size, increase/decrease indent, make the text bold/italic/underlined, change the text highlight color or the font color, center your text or copy the format of one previously written text to the one that you recently written (Format painter). This functionality from MS Word is very useful because of the design of MS Word: There are multiple tabs located in the top of the screen (Home, Insert,Page layout, Refferences, Mailings, Review, View).When the user is located on another tab (not the Home tab), the formatting tools are not available any more. So he has to select the Home tab and then to format the text (if he does not use Mini Toolbar). Because of this way of splitting the functionalities in MS Word, the Mini Toolbar is very helpful. Unlike MS Word, the Ooo Writer has other ways of displaying the formatting tools: there are no tabs like in MS Word and by adding the toolbar for editing under the menus (File, Edit, View,Insert, etc.) it remains there as long as the user wants. This toolbar is customizable so the user can add as many formatting options as he wants. In Ooo there is also the possibility of adding a Side bar in the right part of the screen (This can be done from View->click on Sidebar). This sidebar also contains formatting tools for text. Since the formatting text tools can be set visible on the screen all the time in Ooo Writer, the Mini Toolbar like the one from Word can be implemented, but it is not a necessity. Created attachment 84452 [details]
Scrrenshots from MS Word and Ooo Writer with the formatting text tools
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Created attachment 83777 [details] pop similar to this can also be added to AOO 4.1.0 It is easy when we have a pop up for formatting When a selection is done.