Bug 46870 - Calc [FORMATTING]: Context menu from the formula bar not working
Summary: Calc [FORMATTING]: Context menu from the formula bar not working
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 57000
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
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3.5.0 release
Hardware: Other All
: medium enhancement
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Reported: 2012-03-02 01:00 UTC by Nicolas Mailhot
Modified: 2015-07-21 09:03 UTC (History)
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Description Nicolas Mailhot 2012-03-02 01:00:43 UTC 
When editing a cell containing text, it is not possible to apply specific styles to specific selections from the formula bar, the contextual formatting menu will only appear if one right-clicks the text selection in the cell itself

Please make formatting from the formula bar possible
Comment 1 sasha.libreoffice 2012-05-29 07:41:31 UTC 
Thanks for bugreport
What about Styles:
In difference from Writer, Calc have no Character or Paragraph styles. Therefore makes no sense to apply style to part of cell.

What about context menu: please, formulate it as Functionality Request
(in msExcel context menu in Formula Bar works, but formatting in Formula Bar not shown)
Comment 2 bfoman (inactive) 2012-08-08 08:16:20 UTC 
Confirmed with:
LO 3.5.5.3 
Build ID: own W7 debug build
Windows 7 Professional SP1 64 bit

(In reply to comment #0)
> When editing a cell containing text, it is not possible to apply specific
> styles to specific selections from the formula bar, the contextual formatting
> menu will only appear if one right-clicks the text selection in the cell itself

Contextual menus are not available in formula bar - you have to use toolbar buttons (or shortcuts) to change text formatting. Interestingly, when I right-click in formula bar field all formatting defined earlier in the cell edit mode is cleared. Good that undo action is available. Is it a bug or feature?
Comment 3 Nicolas Mailhot 2012-08-19 08:29:55 UTC 
For me it's definitely a bug, didn't bother to file it since in-cell form
Comment 4 Nicolas Mailhot 2012-08-19 08:30:23 UTC 
atting seems totally broken right now
Comment 5 sasha.libreoffice 2012-08-20 06:15:04 UTC 
Changed title to "Context menu from the formula bar not working"
reproduced this problem in 3.3.4 and 3.6.0
Comment 6 Winfried Donkers 2015-07-21 09:03:59 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 57000 ***