Description: Since OO, there is "Clear formatting" in "Apply Style" toolbar. It clears all formatting and as https://help.libreoffice.org/index.php?title=Common/Apply_Style says: "To reset the selected objects to the default paragraph style, select Clear formatting". In order to make things clear, this one should be renamed to "Clear all formatting". Steps to Reproduce: Choose Apply Style > "Clear formatting" and compare to Format - Clear Direct Formatting. Actual Results: "Clear formatting" Expected Results: "Clear all formatting" Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: Additional Info: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
You are of course referring to the "Formatting" toolbar. There is no "Apply Style" toolbar. That control is a drop list toolbox with tooltip "Set Paragraph Style" [1], through 5.2 release it was "Apply Paragraph Style". The "Clear formatting" action "aClearForm" calls RID_SVXSTR_CLEARFORM [2] and takes its label from its definition [3] However, as Cor pointed out in bug 70759, the action of this control does not clear "All" formatting, just the Paragraph style -- it does not clear any Direct formatting applied and it does not clear other Style types (i.e. Character, Page, Frame, List or Table). Removing "direct" formatting is performed with the .uno:ResetAttributes command associated with the main menu Format -> Clear Direct Formatting command. The RID_SVXSTR_CLEARFORM action will set/reset the *paragraph* style--it should probably be to Default but as in bug 70759 it sets to Text Body. Its labeling controlled from [3] could be changed, but it can not be considered "All" as currently implemented, simply see no need to change it. As to refactoring the RID_SVXSTR_CLEARFORM to affect both paragrah style, other styles and any direct formatting--that would be more than a trivial effort. =-ref-= [1] http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/officecfg/registry/data/org/openoffice/Office/UI/WriterCommands.xcu#2869 [2] http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/svx/source/tbxctrls/tbcontrl.cxx#2202 [3] http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/svx/source/tbxctrls/tbcontrl.src#206