https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34390

y3kcjd5 <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Priority|medium                      |high
            Summary|FORMATTING please, add to   |FORMATTING: Enable Search &
                   |find/replace the option:    |Replace capability for
                   |replace style of found      |frame, page, list, and
                   |paragraph or selection to a |character styles
                   |chosen style                |

--- Comment #11 from y3kcjd5 <[email protected]> ---

I believe the issue here is that character styles cannot be applied using the
search and replace dialog, text properties such as font, color, highlighting,
etc. can only be applied directly. In other words:
If, for example, a "numbers" (e.g. bold, yellow highlight) character style must
be applied to all strings of numbers in a document, currently the only way to
actually do that is to individually select each such string and apply the
character style to them individually.
The Search and Replace dialog is capable of modifying text properties for
searched strings, so it is possible to achieve a result visually identical to
the "numbers" style you want to apply by adding the desired text properties
(bold, yellow highlight) to the 'Replace with' field using the 'Format...'
button. However, text thus modified is only visually identical to, and is not
actually using, the "numbers" character style. Ergo, if further modifications
are then made to the "numbers" character style (e.g. italics, not bold, no
highlight), the text modified by the Search & Replace dialog will not
automatically update its formatting as text actually using the "numbers"
character style would.

See the following similar requests / duplicates for variations and expansions
on this request; summary and importance updated to reflect merge:
Bug 44801 requests Search capability for character styles
Bug 47184 requests Search and Replace capability for page, frame, list, and
character styles, with priority to character styles

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