Bug 46870

Summary: Calc [FORMATTING]: Context menu from the formula bar not working
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot>
Component: SpreadsheetAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: medium CC: bfo.bugmail, sasha.libreoffice
Version: 3.5.0 release   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Description Nicolas Mailhot 2012-03-02 01:00:43 UTC
When editing a cell containing text, it is not possible to apply specific styles to specific selections from the formula bar, the contextual formatting menu will only appear if one right-clicks the text selection in the cell itself

Please make formatting from the formula bar possible
Comment 1 sasha.libreoffice 2012-05-29 07:41:31 UTC
Thanks for bugreport
What about Styles:
In difference from Writer, Calc have no Character or Paragraph styles. Therefore makes no sense to apply style to part of cell.

What about context menu: please, formulate it as Functionality Request
(in msExcel context menu in Formula Bar works, but formatting in Formula Bar not shown)
Comment 2 bfoman 2012-08-08 08:16:20 UTC
Confirmed with:
LO 3.5.5.3 
Build ID: own W7 debug build
Windows 7 Professional SP1 64 bit

(In reply to comment #0)
> When editing a cell containing text, it is not possible to apply specific
> styles to specific selections from the formula bar, the contextual formatting
> menu will only appear if one right-clicks the text selection in the cell itself

Contextual menus are not available in formula bar - you have to use toolbar buttons (or shortcuts) to change text formatting. Interestingly, when I right-click in formula bar field all formatting defined earlier in the cell edit mode is cleared. Good that undo action is available. Is it a bug or feature?
Comment 3 Nicolas Mailhot 2012-08-19 08:29:55 UTC
For me it's definitely a bug, didn't bother to file it since in-cell form
Comment 4 Nicolas Mailhot 2012-08-19 08:30:23 UTC
atting seems totally broken right now
Comment 5 sasha.libreoffice 2012-08-20 06:15:04 UTC
Changed title to "Context menu from the formula bar not working"
reproduced this problem in 3.3.4 and 3.6.0

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