https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173257

--- Comment #3 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Justin L from comment #2)
> Can you explain why in a calc document you would need to limit your search
> to selected text within a single cell?

When you get very long strings in table cells. This happens when people write
tables with things like agenda items, and have a "comments" column, which can
have several long paragraphs. The cell (and sometimes the screen) is not big
enough to show you the whole comment, and then, if you're not careful, you
might perform a replacement in places you actually shouldn't. So you selected
the part you see (e.g. a paragraph) and do a replacement.

> It is neither a bug nor a design decision. It is simply that the only real
> selection that happens in Calc is at a cell level.

Well that's literally not true - you can select just a part of the text in a
cell. And if you can have the selection, there is no good reason to disable the
checkbox. The logic, is, in fact, flipped: The disabling needs a justification,
not the usual operation of the F&R dialog.

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