| Summary: | EDITING: Spell & Grammar check needs an undo option | ||
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| Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | Wyndham Clampett <wyndham> |
| Component: | Linguistic | Assignee: | Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WORKSFORME | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | LibreOffice |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3.5.1 release | ||
| Hardware: | Other | ||
| OS: | Windows (All) | ||
| Whiteboard: | BSA | ||
| Crash report or crash signature: | Regression By: | ||
I have just noticed the Undo button - after two years of using LibreOffice!!! As I am an advanced IT user with considerable experience of using different software programs, including different office suites over many years, I can only conclude the reason I hadn't seen it before, is because it is almost always greyed out and unavailable. This actually re-enforces the "sod's law" comment I made earlier, in that it was only after posting my original bug query, that I spotted the Undo button. Why doesn't it seem to work? Having looked more closely at the "Undo" button, I have worked out that it isn't an Undo function at all. It should more properly be named "Reset. LO needs a proper Undo function, to, for example, undo the last change made. The "normal" undo function in Writer can be used, but for users who have to alternate between using MS Office (at work) and LibreOffice (at home), it gets confusing. What would perhaps help, is a "Back" option which would go back to the previous suggested correction - without "undoing". It is a feature of human nature to spot something that should have been done (or not done) just as okay/change is clicked. Proper Undo and Back options would greatly aid productivity. One of the things Undo doesn't do; neither the Undo button in the dialog, nor the Undo in Writer, is undo a word accidentally added to a dictionary. This is important and really should be addressed. I can't understand with "LibreOffice 3.5.2.2 German UI/Locale [Build-ID: 281b639-6baa1d3-ef66a77-d866f25-f36d45f] on German WIN7 Home Premium (64bit) what reporter's problem might be. I did manual spellcheck for a text with some misspelled words replaced one by one, and then I clicked "Rückgängig" ("undo") several times what made undone the changes one by one, started with the last.
@reporter:
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Closing Bug due to reporter's inactivity as WFM. @reporter: Please feel free to reopen this bug if you find out that the problem still exists with the current stable LibreOffice version and if you can contribute requested additional information due to <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport> (especially BugReport Details)! |
Problem description: Spell & Grammar check needs an undo option. This is a feature that Microsoft Office has that I often need. Sods law says, that as soon as you click okay or change (or whatever), you realise you made a mistake. Not always of course, but often enough for this to be a very useful feature. One which is sadly lacking in LO. Steps to reproduce: 1. .... 2. .... 3. .... Current behavior: Expected behavior: Platform (if different from the browser): Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.65 Safari/535.11