Currently, when creating formulas in Calc's Function Wizard, putting cursor inside brackets of a function, and pressing F1, brings one to the online help for that function. * In any cell, execute Insert->Function Ctrl+F2; * In the Formula box, type formula '=LOG(1;2)'; * Put cursor inside brackets (say, between "1" and ";"); * Press F1. => It will either open offline help for LOG function, or navigate to online helf for it. OTOH, pressing F1 in Calc's Formula Bar does simply nothing (at least on Windows). The proposal is to allow the same behavior as explained above for the Formula box inside the Function Wizard.
Agreed that opening the corresponding formula help is ideal. In OOo 3.3 and 7.0, it would open the Input Line help page, using HID=SC_HID_INSWIN_INPUT#bm_id3150084. Since 7.1, I get a 404 with HID=modules/scalc/ui/inputbar/sc_input_window, regardless of it the formula bar contains nothing, or the cursor is inside the parentheses or in the function name. So we should: 1. restore the Input Line documentation as the default. The new HID should point to https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/scalc/02/06050000.html 2. implement the link to formula help If editing the cell directly, F1 leads to the main help page with HID=SC_HID_SC_WIN_GRIDWIN#bm_id3155335 – but that's already tracked in the closely related bug 157020. Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 5589659829f8a1cef8ca1c8a468732105bbe231b CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded