https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75922
--- Comment #2 from Peter CM <[email protected]> --- In the first line of my bug report I meant to write that I am running LibreOffice 4.2.0.4, not OpenOffice. Sorry. (Is there an edit button somewhere?) Dominique: Unfortunately, only two of the four bug reports I submitted seem to have actually posted: this one and the one about the "Always Correct" button being undocumented and nonfunctional/inoperative. I guess I'll try to resubmit the others. What with the addition of an apparently new, undocumented, inoperative "Always Correct" button, it's hard to know how the spellcheck module's designers intend the "Correct All" button to work. The documentation says only that it "replaces all occurrences of the unknown word with the current suggestion." If I were limiting my spellcheck to text I've selected in the document, I would expect it to replace all occurrences within the selection. If I were running a spellcheck without having selected text -- i.e., from the cursor's position in the document forward, toward the end of the document (and optionally resuming from the beginning of the document after being prompted) -- I would expect it to correct every instance it found until the spellcheck is terminated. Ignoring for the moment what the "Always Correct" button might be intended to do differently from the "Correct All" button, having to select text for the "Correct All" button to function is not practical, since some corrections (e.g., deleting stray paragraph breaks) require you to switch focus from the spellchecker back to the document. If you had selected the entire document, you would have to exit the spellchecker, make your correction, and then select forward to the end of the document before launching the spellchecker again ... each time you make a manual correction to the document. Moreover, you apparently can't even launch the spellchecker if you text selection includes an index field. (The document I'm working on right now has a table of contents; if I select the entire document, the spellchecker won't launch.) Having to manually select text for the "Correct All" button to work requires extra thinking and work and defeats the purpose of automation. As I said, it's not practical. Finally, if the "Correct All" button isn't supposed to work unless you've selected text, why isn't it grayed out or simply not displayed when no text has been selected? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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