Bug 170591 - Writer uses wrong unit of measurement in Find Replace format
Summary: Writer uses wrong unit of measurement in Find Replace format
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.3.0.4 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Blocks: Find&Replace-Dialog
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Reported: 2026-02-03 20:32 UTC by Gerry
Modified: 2026-02-04 05:56 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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2026-02-03 20:34 UTC, Gerry
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Description Gerry 2026-02-03 20:32:33 UTC
Description:
I was trying to Find and Replace the size of the indent on paragraphs in a Writer document. My units of measurement are set to millimetres and my Languages to English UK and others to Australian English, both metric countries. However when I press the up arrow on the "Before text" option, only inches are displayed. See attachment. I killed Libreoffice from the task manager and restarted, but it persisted, even in new empty documents. Safe Mode also made no difference. I'm surprised that this basic error exists in LO.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open new document
2. Go to Find and Replace --> Format
3. Go to Indents and Spacing
4. Go to Before Text and press the up arrow.

Actual Results:
Inches are used, not the millimetres set in Options as default for LO and Writer.

Expected Results:
Millimetres should have been used


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes

Additional Info:
When you tell the software to use metric units, that's what it should do
Comment 1 Gerry 2026-02-03 20:34:01 UTC
Created attachment 205347 [details]
screen dump
Comment 2 Mateusz Wlazłowski 2026-02-03 22:13:35 UTC
Confirm, regardless of language.

Setting the measurement unit to millimeter sets the unit to millimeter in Indents and Spacing, but after a restart of Writer, the unit in Indents and Spacing reverts to inch, even though the unit in the settings is still millimeter


Version: 25.8.4.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 290daaa01b999472f0c7a3890eb6a550fd74c6df
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.14; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: fr-FR (en_US.UTF-8); UI: fr-FR
Flatpak
Calc: threaded

Version: 6.3.0.0.alpha1+
Build ID: c98b1f1cd43b3e109bcaf6324ef2d1f449b34099
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.14; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; 
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: CL