Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 41938
Request for Non Persistent Case Formatting Options
Last modified: 2017-05-20 10:13:20 UTC
Although This issue is related to issue no . 41457 but it talks about a different usability problem. If users want to change Cases of the selected text, then they can use 2 approaches (1) By Selecting Format -> Case/Character Here Only 2 Options are available Upper and Lower case. When these options are applied on the selected text, then the resulted case formatting is *NON PERSISTENT* i.e. If users want then they can again *manually* change the cases of the subjected text or can type more text in whatever case they want in between this text. This Kind of behavior is highly *DESIRABLE* (2) Another approach is to Select Format -> Character -> Font Effects -> Effects Here more options are available apart from the 1st approach. In case if users select the desired text and formats the cases using this approach, then the resultant case formatting becomes *PERSISTENT*. i.e. If users want to *manually* change the cases of the subjected text *Now* then they can *NOT* do so! If a user types more text in between this text, then the new text will be *ONLY* in this case. There is no easy way to change it. e.g. If users applied uppercases using this approach, and now want to type lower case letters in the subjected text, then they can not do so. Even if Caps Lock is off, characters typed here will be in upper case! This approach is just like a sticky formatting, there is no easy way to escape from it, once it has been applied. This kind of behavior is highly *UNDESIRABLE*. Apart From Suggestions made in issue no 41457 here is one more- All types of Case Formatting, by any approach should be *NON PERSISTENT* i.e. Users should be able to *Manually* format the subjected text in whatever way they want (uppercase/lowercase/title case etc), once case formatting has been applied using word processor. This kind of functionality is also desired for Calc, Impress etc. However if you must continue your current method, then please give the user the liberty to choose PERSISTENT case formatting or NON PERSISTENT case formatting. Default setting for it *should* be *NON PERSISTENT*. Please also have a look at the closely related issue no . 41457 (URL is http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=41457 )
MRU->US: could you please explain the sense of Format.Case/Characters? Thanks a lot!
Pls. take over.
SBA: Reassigned to Requirements.
I can't really verify that it is persistant. If I enter "This IS my TeSt teXT" and then select Title, it changes to "This IS My TeSt TeXT" (upper case are not changed to lower case, but some lower case are changed to upper case, which probably is correct behaviour). Now I insert "hElLo" so it all change to "This IS My TeSt HElLo TeXT". If I now change the effect to "(Without)", the whole sentence changes to "This IS my TeSt hElLo teXT". So what you are typing is what persists. How you set the effect only affect what the text looks like. For example, write a few words in lower case, change the effect to upper case, highlight the words you wrote, copy them into a text editor. The text editor now displays the text in lower case. So it's not persistant. If it is, I think I just want to know what "persistant" means in this case... OpenOffice.org 2.2, Windows XP SP2.
Format - Change Case is non persistent Format - Character... - Font Effects - Effects is persistent There is no point having two methods for the same result - it is possible user wants persistence. AOO410m14(Build:9760) - Rev. 1573062 2014-03-01_04:11:01 - Rev. 1573123 Debian