Bug 35288 - feature request: highlight all search matches
Summary: feature request: highlight all search matches
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.3.1 release
Hardware: All All
: high enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2011-03-14 02:34 UTC by quesada
Modified: 2013-01-29 17:20 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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"Find & Replace" dialogue box from LibreOffice Calc v3.6.4.3 with the "Find All" button circled. (176 bytes, text/plain)
2013-01-29 16:19 UTC, bugzillaLO-robert
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Description quesada 2011-03-14 02:34:20 UTC
Highlight all search matches is already implemented in Word 2010 and most people would expect it because all browsers use it.
Comment 1 Björn Michaelsen 2011-12-23 11:49:18 UTC
[This is an automated message.]
This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it
started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is
changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back
to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases.
Details on how to test the 3.5.0 beta1 can be found at:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHunting_Session_3.5.0.-1

more detail on this bulk operation: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/RFC-Operation-Spamzilla-tp3607474p3607474.html
Comment 2 Roman Eisele 2012-05-10 00:25:59 UTC
This is a feature/enhancement request, therefore changed 'Importance' field to 'enhancement'.
Comment 3 Florian Reisinger 2012-08-14 14:01:51 UTC
Dear bug submitter!

Due to the fact, that there are a lot of NEEDINFO bugs with no answer within the last six months, we close all of these bugs.

To keep this message short, more infos are available @ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/NeedinfoClosure#Statement

Thanks for understanding and hopefully updating your bug, so that everything is prepared for developers to fix your problem.

Yours!

Florian
Comment 4 Florian Reisinger 2012-08-14 14:02:53 UTC
Dear bug submitter!

Due to the fact, that there are a lot of NEEDINFO bugs with no answer within the last six months, we close all of these bugs.

To keep this message short, more infos are available @ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/NeedinfoClosure#Statement

Thanks for understanding and hopefully updating your bug, so that everything is prepared for developers to fix your problem.

Yours!

Florian
Comment 5 Florian Reisinger 2012-08-14 14:07:27 UTC
Dear bug submitter!

Due to the fact, that there are a lot of NEEDINFO bugs with no answer within the last six months, we close all of these bugs.

To keep this message short, more infos are available @ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/NeedinfoClosure#Statement

Thanks for understanding and hopefully updating your bug, so that everything is prepared for developers to fix your problem.

Yours!

Florian
Comment 6 Florian Reisinger 2012-08-14 14:09:33 UTC
Dear bug submitter!

Due to the fact, that there are a lot of NEEDINFO bugs with no answer within the last six months, we close all of these bugs.

To keep this message short, more infos are available @ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/NeedinfoClosure#Statement

Thanks for understanding and hopefully updating your bug, so that everything is prepared for developers to fix your problem.

Yours!

Florian
Comment 7 sasha.libreoffice 2012-08-24 10:52:55 UTC
reopening because RFE
Comment 8 bugzillaLO-robert 2013-01-28 19:15:24 UTC
My first time with BugZilla so I'm sorry for any mistakes here.

I don't think there's much to add here other than this feature isn't in v3.6.4.3 and it sure would be nice.  I just switched from OpenOffice to LibreOffice last week (for the docx and xlsx writing support) and miss that feature from OpenOffice.  Honestly, it might even be enough to make me switch back since I  read and search docs much more often than I edit them for other people's use.
Comment 9 sasha.libreoffice 2013-01-29 05:26:31 UTC
If on Linux, try Calligra Words as temporary workaround
Comment 10 Florian Reisinger 2013-01-29 07:57:09 UTC
You have done everything right ;)
Comment 11 bugzillaLO-robert 2013-01-29 16:16:41 UTC
My bad - the "Find All" option is there plain as day and I'm still on the same v3.6.4.3 as I was yesterday.  The option is on the "Find & Replace" dialogue box, which I know I looked at and used. No idea how I missed it. I don't think anything should be done to make it more obvious either. It's already prominently displayed exactly where I expected it to be. The fact I somehow didn't see it is my mistake.

I've confirmed the "Find All" option is there in Calc and Writer v3.6.4.3 and works even in read-only mode.

Also, yesterday I ended up using this work-around which might be useful on older versions of LibreOffice.  Use "Find & Replace" to replace the text with something distinctive and undoing the change right afterwards (actually the Replace All also highlights everything it changes too, so I could have replaced the text with itself).
Comment 12 bugzillaLO-robert 2013-01-29 16:19:29 UTC
Created attachment 73846 [details]
"Find & Replace" dialogue box from LibreOffice Calc v3.6.4.3 with the "Find All" button circled.
Comment 13 Florian Reisinger 2013-01-29 17:20:37 UTC
Hi changing status, because it has never been a bug...
Did I understood you right :)