Bug 37105

Summary:	EDITING: Clear Direct Formatting broken for character styles
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Mark Gajdosik <maros.gajdosik>
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTABUG
Severity:	minor	CC:	cno, courrier.oou.fr.mjk, kendy, LibreOffice, nopower
Priority:	medium
Version:	3.3.2 release
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Crash report or crash signature:		Regression By:
Attachments:	A small section of the document with the troublesome formatting.

Description Mark Gajdosik 2011-05-11 03:17:41 UTC

I've seen the report from November 2010 (http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-bugs/2010-November/000840.html) regarding the Clear Formatting - the problem has been marked as resolved since then.

However, I am still having problems clearing some character formatting in some of my documents. This is causing me minor difficulties with document editing as I have to apply Default character formatting directly from the list to clear it.

I have uploaded a section of my document, where I cannot clear the formatting of the green boxes.

Many thanks!

Mark

Comment 1 Noel Power 2011-05-11 03:36:15 UTC

could you upload the doc please

Comment 2 Mark Gajdosik 2011-05-11 03:40:08 UTC

Created attachment 46596 [details]
A small section of the document with the troublesome formatting.

Sorry, I somehow managed not to upload the file. Hope it helps!
Mark

Comment 3 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2011-05-11 04:29:34 UTC

Effect is reproducible with reporter's sample document and "LibreOffice 3.4Beta4  – WIN7  Home Premium  (64bit) German UI [DEV300m103 (Build:4)]"

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open document with double click from WIN explorer
2. select all contents with <ctrl+a>
3. Menu 'Format > Clear direct Formatting'
   expected: All characters with default formatting
   actual: green background an white characters remain.

OOo 3.1.1 seems to work as expected.

But may be expection is wrong?

Help text from
<http://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Format>
is Wrong / obsolete, there does not exist an item "Default Formatting". That's obsolete, the current name is "Clear Direct formatting" 

Help says "Removes direct formatting and formatting by character styles from the selection."
That works with OOo 3.1.1 also for the green background characters (character Style "!FRA Fire Exit ID"), but not with LibO.

But can we trust a help text with obsolete heading?

Hints in Help concerning deletion hyperlinks also does not match with real behavior, during my tests hyperlinks remain, what might be related, "Internet Hyperlink" also is a character style.

I have much trouble with "Clear Direct formatting", but until now i have not found the time for systematic research.

@Noel:
Will you proceed or is this one for Cédric?

@Kendy
Will you please check Help?

Comment 4 Noel Power 2011-05-11 04:35:26 UTC

currently I really don't have a clue what clear formatting even is ( so thanks for checking ) I wonder though why we differ from Oracle office here, is this intentional, maybe Cedric has some idea

Comment 5 Mark Gajdosik 2011-05-11 10:59:31 UTC

Also, Clear formatting does not clear the list styles.

I have no idea if this was supposed to be this way. I can't try this on OOo since I replaced it with LibreOffice - but I sort of remember it worked in OOo.

Sorry for a useless comment if the function wasn't supposed to clear list styles.

Comment 6 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2011-05-12 21:58:36 UTC

Related or not?
In DRAW / Presentation the Format menu item is named "Default Formatting". Is that intended because it behaves different from here discussed "Clear direct Formatting", or wrong? Help uses the samd "Common" text for "Clear direct Formatting".

Comment 7 Cor Nouws 2011-08-10 14:14:27 UTC

According to comment https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31394#c3, this is intended behaviour, changed on purpose.
> Close  as NotABug