Bug 78582 - Search and replace character styles
Summary: Search and replace character styles
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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: 34390 44801 95029 133439 152456 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: Find&Replace-Styles Writer-Styles-Character
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Reported: 2014-05-12 06:35 UTC by Ulrich Windl
Modified: 2025-03-31 13:37 UTC (History)
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Description Ulrich Windl 2014-05-12 06:35:04 UTC 
It is possible to search (and replace) paragraph styles, but you cannot search for character styles. Please add that feature!
Comment 1 Cor Nouws 2014-05-12 07:29:21 UTC 
Hi Ulrich,

I love the idea. (Even thought I already submitted it ;) )
> New

Thanks, Cor
Comment 2 Gilvan Vilarim 2014-05-13 23:21:08 UTC 
I agree that it is a good idea. Search and Replace should let the user choose which kind of style to search for, not only paragraph styles.

Best regards,
Gilvan.
Comment 3 Frank Peters 2015-09-05 13:57:32 UTC 
In addition, I would appreciate if you could attribute a certain character style to a search string. If I remember it well, this was possible in MS Word, too.
Comment 4 Cor Nouws 2016-03-09 09:31:08 UTC 
*** Bug 95029 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Zenaan Harkness 2016-08-30 03:16:01 UTC 
Frank comment #3, that would need to be a separate bug - searching first to see if already created somewhere.
Comment 6 Thomas Lendo 2017-05-26 17:17:42 UTC 
*** Bug 34390 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Xisco Faulí 2017-10-27 11:22:33 UTC 
*** Bug 44801 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Fiable.biz 2021-03-15 03:48:46 UTC 
Since searching for paragraph styles is already implemented, adding character style search shouldn't be very difficult.
Comment 9 Roman Kuznetsov 2023-05-06 14:40:32 UTC 
*** Bug 152456 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-07-27 14:28:21 UTC 
*** Bug 133439 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 G. 2024-01-20 12:44:19 UTC 
I was about to suggest the same thing
Comment 12 Ransom 2024-07-08 14:41:28 UTC 
I have also been missing the option to search for Character Styles in the “Find and Replace” function for a long time. This suggestion for improvement here is now a good 10 years old …
Comment 13 Walter 2025-03-31 12:48:39 UTC 
I came across this threat only now. If you are still thinking about it, there exists the AltSearch extensions which does this: https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/70066
Comment 14 V Stuart Foote 2025-03-31 13:37:01 UTC 
Fixed by what? The abandoned AltSearch extension only indirectly addressed.