https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94989
--- Comment #21 from Tex2002ans <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #20) > you do need to select if you want to do something with that content [...]. > You can: > * Delete all of it > * Remove DF in it. > * [...] Yes, Eyal. Full agree with that list. There are many extra use-cases too (including the ones you+me listed). And: - "Does this text looks a little f i s h y?" Do I know where letter-spacing is hidden in LO's submenus? No. But I do know: - Word = Click, Select All Similar, Click = Fixed. - LibreOffice = Prepare for a huge adventure through the menus/docs!!! :P > I think the F&R way is more surgical than some probability method. I just named my ebook editing methods that way, because most conversion tools do: - - - METHOD A: Mass "strip/ignore formatting" Similar to how in LibreOffice, you typically try to quick clean by doing do a: - Ctrl+A + Ctrl+M - (Select All + Clear Direct Formatting) Then you'd have to go in and try to: - REIMPLEMENT a lot of your "clean formatting" back on top. METHOD B: Convert ALL formatting Then you'd have to go in and try to: - STRIP a lot of the "useless"/direct formatting. - - - This "selective" approach lets you quickly correct large chunks of Text / Styles / Direct Formatting / problems in a systematic, piece-by-piece, user-friendly way. > F&R is not [...] convenient and it's difficult to intuit what the dialog will > do when you get back into it and click next. Yep, full agree there too. Word's "Select All Similar" method—where you stay within the main document UI—is key for scrolling + looking at what's highlighted, THEN letting you decide what to do with that information. With LO's current method, you are going from UI->menu->UI->menu->sub-menu, HOPING you guessed+filled in all the information correct—(and know where to find it)—then pressing "Replace" and "Replace All" and crossing your fingers, hoping you didn't mess up! > How about forwarding this topic for an extension? Maybe the author of > AltSearch is interested. Or a killer expansion/feature of LO itself. :) > while in LO we have the style spotlight, which offers this functionality to a > certain degree, for named styles. Yes. The Spotlight was a HUGE step in the right direction. And I've already used it to debug some very tricky Styles issues where I couldn't figure out WHAT THE HECK Word was doing in the innards of some DOCX files. :) (Why that ONE paragraph/heading is acting strange compared to all the others.) - Spotlight tagged it as a different number (or gave it diagonal slashes, meaning Direct Formatting was hidden there). - Then I knew where to look. I've already showed it to a few Editor friends on webcam/screenshare, and they wished they had the Spotlight feature. :) Now we just need the opposite—one of Word's killer features baked into LO too, but made even better. :) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
