Description: Open a sheet in CALC and type anything in a cell. Say you typed "A". Copy the same content to the cells below. Now open [Find and Replace] from menu [Edit]. Replace "A" with "BAC". Click [Replace]. "A" in the first cell is replaced with "BAC". Click [Replace] again, the "BAC" in the first cell is replaced with "BBACC". Keep clicking [Replace] and only material the first cell will be replaced. The replacements in the following cell will never take place. This is not a behavior found in any other [F&R] function I know, which normally move the search focus past the string just replaced. It is also not the behavior of [F&R] in Libreoffice Writer. Note that if one clicks [Replace all] "BAC" is correctly replaced in all cells. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert content "A" in 2 cells in a column. 2. Find and replace "A" with "BAC" 3. Click "Replace" twice Actual Results: BBACC A Expected Results: BAC BAC Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No OpenGL enabled: Yes Additional Info: See the description.
Taking in what help https://help.libreoffice.org/7.0/en-US/text/shared/01/02100000.html?System=WIN&DbPAR=CALC&HID=svx/ui/findreplacedialog/dialog-action_area3#bm_@@nowidget@@ mention: 'Replace Replaces the selected text or format that you searched for, and then searches for the next occurrence.' Go to the next ocurrence doesn't happen. Version: 7.0.0.0.alpha0+ (x64) Build ID: 7459b9ecb54a298f02d19089620149718f8d8d48 CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19608; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win; Locale: es-ES (es_ES); UI-Language: en-US Calc: CL
I slightly remember a UX discussion about this behaviour and why it now is as it is but no details, there should be some (fixed) bug around talking about that.
Hi @Eike, after a research, up to https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106194, seems it works in the supposed way.
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The bug is still present in current Calc (see version below). As described by OP, each time the "Replace" string contains the "Find" string, the selection never moves to the next occurrence, therefore only the first cell keeps on being updated. Version: 7.5.3.2 (X86_64) Build ID: 50(Build:2) CPU threads: 12; OS: Linux 6.3; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded