The "Find" toolbar does not display any options, nor does it have a link to "Search options" in the drop down menu. To see and/or change the options, you have to activate the "Find & Replace" (Ctrl+Alt+F) dialog. The current behavior is pretty frustrating, if you have forgotten that the option "Whole words only" has been used before, and you can not see that.
I would suggest to add "Search options" in the drop down list, or even add the most basic options to the search toolbar.
Just saw I can add the "Find & Replace" icon to the toolbar, which gives fast access to the advanced options. But this is not intuitive enough imho.
I do not understand, isn't having the search&replace icon in the toolbar the equivalent of having search options in the drop down list, seeing that search&replace provide options for searching? And I understand that this might not be intuitive, but once you make the search&replace button visible, then it will always be visible for easy access in the future. Lastly, should this be marked as an enhancement?
(In reply to comment #3) > I do not understand, isn't having the search&replace icon in the toolbar the > equivalent of having search options in the drop down list, seeing that > search&replace provide options for searching? It is. But that does not calm the obscurity of the current behaviour. > And I understand that this might not be intuitive, but once you make the > search&replace button visible, then it will always be visible for easy access > in the future. Yes. But I am a system developer and geek, I can dig into the problem and decifre the rules of obscurity. As I suppose this is an Global and Enterprise product, which tries to get global acceptance, I am sure this will give people a major turn off in usability feeling. To be honest, how many people do you think will follow my example and add the "Find & Replace" button to the toolbar? > Lastly, should this be marked as an enhancement? Well I am used to this "Severity" list: 0=Enterprise wide crash 1=Crash or system hang 2=Data loss/feature failure 3=Not working as expected 4=Performance 5=User friendliness/usability 6=Cosmetic 7=Enhancement 8=Documentation According to this list, I would rate the problem as "5=User friendliness/usability" and on this site, I would map it to "Trivial" ... unless I misunderstand the concept of "trivial".
Regarding Severity, I just read the guidelines: Trivial cosmetic problem like misspelled words or misaligned text Minor minor loss of function, or other problem where easy workaround is present Normal regular issue, some loss of functionality under specific circumstances According to this, the severity should be either Minor (or even Normal) The main problem is, that this problem will affect the majority of users at some point in time. Well as long as users never ever start a "Find & Replace" with "whole word only", they will probably not be caught by this obscurity. I agree on that. Which makes it a minor problem.
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As I can understand, here requested button "Find&Replace" on toolbar "Find". In 3.6.1 it present. I think status should be "Fixed"
Well it's not easy for me to confirm, at I have upgraded my own installation, and I can't see if the icon available is set by myself, or if it's on by default now. I will have to do a clean install on a new computer to see if it is fixed. But If you say you see an options icon as default, it is probably fixed :)
Closing as WORKSFORME as I can also see the icon on the find toolbar. If you are still unable to find it, please let us know what version of LibO you are running LibO: 3.6.1.2