Bug 126375 - Move "MS compatible Forms menu" option in Options dialog from LibreOffice Writer>Compatibility to Load/Save>MicroSoft Office
Summary: Move "MS compatible Forms menu" option in Options dialog from LibreOffice Wri...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
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6.3.0.1 rc
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Keywords: topicUI
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Blocks: Options-Dialog-Writer
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Reported: 2019-07-13 10:56 UTC by Roman Kuznetsov
Modified: 2019-07-22 09:15 UTC (History)
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Description Roman Kuznetsov 2019-07-13 10:56:52 UTC
Description:
Move "MS compatible Forms menu" option in Options dialog from LibreOffice Writer>Compatibility to Load/Save>MicroSoft Office.

For me it would be more logic because all MSO compatibility options are in Load/Save>MicroSoft Office now.

And in this case it needs rename option to "Reorganize Forms menu in Writer for MS compatibility"

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Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Version: 6.3.0.1
Build ID: 41ac97386aba908b6db860cfb4cfe2da871886ae
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.0; UI render: default; VCL: kde5; 
Locale: ru-RU (ru_RU.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 Tamás Zolnai 2019-07-13 11:16:47 UTC
>> For me it would be more logic because all MSO compatibility options are in
>> Load/Save>MicroSoft Office now.

I don't see how it's more logical to have this option under Load / Save, since it's not related to loading / saving anything. This option is about customizing the UI.

Not all options are there. LibreOffice Writer>Compatibility contains compatibility options related to MSO too. See "Word-compatible trailing blanks" for example. Also, there are other options which are related to MSO, but it's not obvious from the naming. "Protect form" for example, also an option used for MSO compatibility.
Comment 2 Heiko Tietze 2019-07-22 09:15:33 UTC
Agree with Tamás. From the help for T>O>Load/Save:

"The Embedded Objects section specifies how to import and export Microsoft Office OLE objects."

And T>O>W>Compatibilty:

"Specifies compatibility settings for text documents. These options help in fine-tuning LibreOffice when importing Microsoft Word documents."

=> WFM

Nevertheless, this new section is a) too small, b) has only one item, and most relevant issue c) is always in focus (and highlighted). So we should make the section larger and hopefully add soon more global options in order it make sense. And take care of the focus so the checkbox not highlighted when something in the upper list is selected, and vice versa. Does this needs a new ticket?