Bug 169632 - No Find&Replace command on any of the tabs
Summary: No Find&Replace command on any of the tabs
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
26.2.0.0 alpha0+ master
Hardware: All All
: low enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/libreoffice/...
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Keywords: difficultyBeginner, easyHack, skillDesign, topicUI
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Blocks: Notebookbar-Tabbed
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Reported: 2025-11-23 14:29 UTC by Eyal Rozenberg
Modified: 2025-12-12 12:41 UTC (History)
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Description Eyal Rozenberg 2025-11-23 14:29:49 UTC 
The Notebookbar Tabbed UI mode does not seem to offer a command, and a button, for opening the Find & Replace dialog - on any of the tabs. There is only 'Find' on the home tab, which opens the Find toolbar.

Find & Replace is in common enough use to merit a button on one of the tabs. If nowhere else, at least make 'Find' into a menubutton, which contains an item for Find & Replace (although, frankly, I would place that somewhere more prominent).
Comment 1 Roman Kuznetsov 2025-11-23 16:31:29 UTC 
Because we have no Edit tab at all =)

It's more an enhancement, set to NEW
Comment 2 Eyal Rozenberg 2025-11-23 18:15:04 UTC 
(In reply to Roman Kuznetsov from comment #1)
> It's more an enhancement, set to NEW

I believe it's more serious than that. It was a mistake on our part to exclude that command from the set of what's available on the tabs, and not just a possible improvement. We could say it's a minor bug though, since one can get at that dialog another way.
Comment 3 V Stuart Foote 2025-11-23 18:19:03 UTC 
The ill labeled 'Home' menu exposure triangle of the Home tab's overflow menu accepts customization. The NB customization currently shows menu these items enabled active

MenuHome-FocusToFindbar --> 'Find...'
MenuHome-SearchDialog --> 'Find and Replace...'
MenuHome-GotoPage --> 'Go to Page...'

as well as the toggle for the Home tab's menu button 'Find' 

Home-FocusToFindbar (which can be hidden by customization checkbox).

enhancement here might be to add a Home-SearchDialog entry to replace the Home-FocusToFindbar

Can see some benefit to allowing user to choose one or the other to appear on the Home tab. But little to showing them both at once.
Comment 4 Heiko Tietze 2025-12-12 12:41:10 UTC 
We discussed the topic in the design meeting.

(Quick-)Find and F&R are available via context menu; and usually these functions are started per shortcut. But F&R is available in the standard toolbar of the classic UI so we agree that changing QF to F&R makes sense.

Code pointer:
In sw(sc/sd)/uiconfig/swriter/ui/notebookbar.ui the <object class="GtkToolButton" id="Home-FocusToFindbar"> has the <property name="action-name">vnd.sun.star.findbar:FocusToFindbar</property> which needs to be exchanged to <property name="action-name">.uno:SearchDialog</property>.