With Record Changes and Show Changes enabled, several small problems occur, I think all due to deleted text treated as if it has not been deleted. One example is if you delete text after the leading capital of a word and insert other text with the first letter of the new word capitalised: if you trigger auto complete, your leading capital is changed to lower case. E.g. Changing The into She will result in she: The longed for -> She longed for -> (S replacing T) she longed for (Writer changes S to s because it saw: "TShe ") Similarly, if the first character replaced would be at the start of a word due to deleting text to its left, and you type a single or double quote, smart quotes turn it into an end quote instead an open quote, since the deleted text is still in a sense there. And if you delete a word and replace it with a new one (so the deleted text is adjacent to the new text), the new word won't be found with a search if Whole Word is enabled (because the deleted text is considered part of the new word). I have a feeling there are more: it also interferes with spell checks, I recall, seeing the deleted text as still present. This is not new in 25.2: the behaviour has been there as long as I can remember. It's a minor annoyance that tends to cause errors if you don't stay alert. Version: 25.2.1.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: d3abf4aee5fd705e4a92bba33a32f40bc4e56f49 CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.8; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-GB (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded
Thank you for reporting the bug. I can not reproduce the bug in Version: 25.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 7b9e27da2033192c628b23e4e1686209e951dadb CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.1; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded or Version: 25.2.1.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: d3abf4aee5fd705e4a92bba33a32f40bc4e56f49 CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.1; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded
Can not reproduce using Version: 25.2.1.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: d3abf4aee5fd705e4a92bba33a32f40bc4e56f49 CPU threads: 12; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (10.0 build 19045); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US Calc: CL threaded Version: 25.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 1d8ff7bd62249ad0f825eaca18ea524d9d7c6c2e CPU threads: 12; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (build 19045); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US Calc: CL threaded
This is with Version: 25.2.1.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: d3abf4aee5fd705e4a92bba33a32f40bc4e56f49 CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.8; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-GB (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded I expect this is related, too: If you replace a word with record and show changes on, so you see the deleted word struck out and the replacement word, and then do a Find and Replace all for that word, the alread ydeleted word is deleted again and the correction inserted a second time. E.g. suppose changing "12" -> "twelve" (To signify deletion as --deleted--): 12 -> --12--twelve Find and Replace All "12" -> "twelve" leads to: --12--twelvetwelve
(In reply to Luke Kendall from comment #0) > With Record Changes and Show Changes enabled, several small problems occur, > I think all due to deleted text treated as if it has not been deleted. > > One example is if you delete text after the leading capital of a word and > insert other text with the first letter of the new word capitalised: if you > trigger auto complete, your leading capital is changed to lower case. > E.g. Changing The into She will result in she: > The longed for -> > She longed for -> (S replacing T) > she longed for (Writer changes S to s because it saw: "TShe ") Seeing as two people could not reproduce it and I could, I will try to clarify the steps. 1. Write The longed for 2. Turn on change tracking from Edit - Track Changes - Record 3. Use Backspace to delete "The" 4. Move the cursor after "T" in the deleted "The" 5. Type She and hit Space Already seen in oldest of linux-43all repo. Arch Linux 64-bit Version: 26.2.0.0.alpha1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: d896b03b0aefee24bcb5c3c07809e59ff6bf1efa CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.17; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: CL threaded Built on 2 December 2025 Version: 26.2.0.0.alpha1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 620(Build:0) CPU threads: 2; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26100); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US Calc: threaded I notice these related fixed older reports: bug 83419 bug 106380 bug 140674