Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 34425
Spellchecker always jumps back to cursor position where it was started
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
After spellcheck OOo jumps to the last cursorposition, not to the last edited word. I think, it should be possible to break where the spellchecker is and OOo position the cursor at the last checked word. Reason: I check the spelling and make an error (say anything is correct, but isn't), but if I wonna fix it, I have to search the Position. If the spellchecker would stop at the checked word, I could fix the error. Other reason: If I see, anything needs bigger correction, I could stop and make this and start it again, but if the cursor was before on a other position, I need to search the position (not easy with a big document). I think, a breakbutton could be a good idea, or that the spellchecker sets the cursor automatikly to the last checked word. Hope, somewhere has undersdood me ;-) Greetings, Markus from Switzerland
MRU->SBA: pls evaluate
SBA: Confirmed. My ideas: (1) Introducing a "break" button in the spellcheck dialog. (2) Yet-another-option for the spellchecker: "Place the cursor where the spellchecker was closed". (3) Change behavior (No UI change): When the user clicks "Undo" and "Close", only THEN the cursor goes to the last position where a change took place. (4) Change behavior (No UI change): When the user clicks beside the Spellcheck dialog and then closes it, the cursor stays there (currently it is jumping back to where spellcheck was started). Reassigned to requirements
SBA: As written above, there can be different solutions, so I adjusted summary reflect the general problem.
*** Issue 50827 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
SBA: See also enhancement issue 48870 : "Cursor position gets relocated when context menu for AutoSpellCheck is called". The behavior of the Spellcheck dialog (Always keeping the cursor position) is "reverse" to the Online spelling: Cursor will always be re-located to a highlighted word when the Online spellcheck (AutoSpellCheck) context menu is called.
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This issue is still an issue. The behavior after closing the spell checker is mostly irritating. Most times when I close the spell checker before coming back to the first spell checked word, I mean an "abort" of the spell checker to change the word manually or something else. But after closing the spell checker Writer brings me back to the beginning of spell checking - because of that I have so search manually for the word that was checked at last or have to do spell checking again. Am I only one of very few people who don't like the actual behavior? Today (OOo 3.1) solution no. 4 - that sba described in his comment from Dec 15 2004 - is implemented in Writer. It's better than before. So far so good. But I think it's more a workaround. I like the idea of an option for this: "Go back to starting point after closing - check mark on/off" in the spell checker options. If you reject the idea of a new option vehemently and the actual behavior won't be changed in the future, you can close this issue as wontfix or whatever.