There is currently no way to quickly look through the search results of a query initiated from the find bar. Ideally, LibreOffice should highlight all the matches as the query is typed into the searchbox, similarly to how Chromium behaves. Operating System: All Version: 4.1.0.4 release
Please try "Find All" in the "View/Find & Replace" control. Is it OK ? You specified "...from the find bar..." and "...as the query is typed into the searchbox..." so I wonder whether you look for more. Feel free to detail the enhancement you expect (I think that BZ is not the right place). Any case, not a bug.
(In reply to comment #1) > Please try "Find All" in the "View/Find & Replace" control. Is it OK ? Nope, not what I was getting at. I meant seeing at a glance what the results are, not selecting all of them. (For example, see the way Chromium shows search results.) > > You specified "...from the find bar..." and "...as the query is typed into > the searchbox..." so I wonder whether you look for more. Feel free to detail > the enhancement you expect (I think that BZ is not the right place). Bugzilla is certainly a place to file enhancement requests. (If you don't think so, then what is the right place?)
Valid request. And as Mirek2 says: Try chromium to see how it's done properly.
for me this sounds very interesting (reproducible with LO 4.3.2.2, Win 8.1) marked as enhancement request
*** Bug 128376 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 92303 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 155300 [details] Live (as-you-type) search term highlighting in Safari; LibreOffice should aim to implement this
Enhancement reported in 2014. No reason for a high severity status
Number of duplicates, Xisco! What does the year of reporting has to do with anything?
(In reply to Adolfo Jayme from comment #9) > Number of duplicates, Xisco! What does the year of reporting has to do with > anything? Just 2... anyway, let's the UX Team work on this, they might have a proposal on how to fix it
We have a dialog in Calc showing all results (see also bug 88489). Some more convenient and common solution as known from browsers, for example, would be a nice to have, though with low importance. And of course, as you type would be quite cool.
So, is this bug specifically about highlighting all results? Or about different ways of viewing all results (such as place a list of them somewhere on screen)?
As per the screenshot user is expecting all results to be highlighted while typing I guess. Show all is possible via find all after clicking the binocular icon. Wondering if that should be an option in the find bar at the bottom in writer? One nice thing to have would be the feature known from browsers where a small line next to the scrollbar shows up as indicator for a search result match. But that should be a follow-up issue I guess.