Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 71535
Ease selection of all text with the same formatting
Last modified: 2017-05-20 10:13:17 UTC
In Microsoft Word it's easy to select all text with the same formatting in a Word (>2002) document using the "Styles and Formatting" task pane. This can be helpful for viewing the text, changing its formatting or deleting it. To select all text with the same formatting in Word you can open the "Styles and Formatting" task pane, and then click a word that's formatted like the text you want to select. (The formatting description will appear under "Formatting of selected text" in the "Styles and Formatting" task pane.) In the "Styles and Formatting" task pane, click "Select All". Now you can apply the actions you want. I really would like to see an option like this in OpenOffice Writer. It's soarly missing for professional editors like me. Several colleges complained about this to me.
Reassigned to SBA.
SBA: Professionals (even editors :-) should know about the tool they earn their living with. For OOo users, this is the use of (paragraph and character) styles. The change of a style will change all text with the respective style applied. Very cool feature that eases the work of people who have to use a word processor day by day. Non-professional users who use hard formatting indeed have a slightly harder way to change "All text with hard attributes" (i.e. bold+italic+16pt+Font XYZ). This works with "Edit - Find and replace". Don't enter a search string, but click on format and select the attributes to search for. Thus the original summary "not possible to select all text with same formatting" is WRONG. However, selecting text without further research of its attributes to have an easier way to search is a valid feature/enhancement request. Correcting summary. Reassigned to requirements.
Off course we work with styles. This is exactly what this feature request is all about. To explain what I mean, please read the paragraph "Style/format based selection" at http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-6270_11-5053964.html See the "Select all 3 instances" in "Figure B"? This makes it very easy to change one style into another: select all the instances of a style and just click another style. This feature is available since Word XP / 2002. Word creates a style for every paragraph with a different formatting. Use case: Suppose you receive a document from someone who does not know about styles or uses other style names that your corporate workflow is not accustomed to. With this feature you can easily adapt all styles without having to do a "Search and replace" for each style instance. When working with many different external editors this comes in really handy.
For paragraph styles this feature is in Edit > Find & Replace. Click on "More Options" and check "Search for styles". For character formatting you can select the relevant attribute and format. I don't know a way to search for character styles.
We use that, but we find it less userfriendly than MS solution.
I really would like to raise attention to my previous reported enhancement. To illustrate what I meant, here's a link http://www.ithelpdesk.qut.edu.au/KPAKS/Microsoft%20Word%202003/099691124972716.JPG It especially comes in handy when dealing with freelancers. Thank you.
At Revues.org (http://www.revues.org/?lang=en), where I work, we strongly support that kind of improvement. Word processors are a central part of our workflow (to publish over 200 open access scholarly journals). As this kind of functionality is only available on Microsoft Word, we have to use it instead of Open Office. We would like to switch to Open Office, but this is currently impossible: it would lead to a too important loss of productivity. I totally agree with delec: the "Search for styles" option is far less userfriendly than the MS solution.
Please don't change targets and priorities of your own.
Is not this request a duplicate of https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=7861 ?
Please attach real life example (links in comment 3, comment 6 not working)
Created attachment 83111 [details] Attachment shows example behaviour
Here is a Microsoft Knowledgebase article that describes the expected behavior: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/292084/en-us Thanks for reviewing.
Confirmed with AOO410m15(Build:9761) - Rev. 1583666 2014-04-01 13:50 - Linux x86_64 Debian
Duplicate bug *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of issue 107050 ***
I'm okay with this bug being a duplicate, but since I filed it in 2006 and bug 107050 originates from 2009, shouldn't it be the other way around?
@jean-baptiste.bertrand I don't think it duplicates that bug.
(In reply to dielec from comment #15) > I'm okay with this bug being a duplicate, but since I filed it in 2006 and > bug 107050 originates from 2009, shouldn't it be the other way around? Perhaps, but it was confirmed first. Usually the bug with most information should be the un-duplicated one. But this is a mere status change - all duplicates should be reviewed before actual implementation.