Bug 83439 - Improve uppercase/lowercase shortcut Shift+F3 activity range
Summary: Improve uppercase/lowercase shortcut Shift+F3 activity range
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 54742
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
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4.3.0.4 release
Hardware: All All
: low minor
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Keywords: needsDevEval
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Blocks: Shortcuts-Accelerators Writer-UX CaseFolding
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Reported: 2014-09-03 14:20 UTC by Zeki Bildirici
Modified: 2021-12-15 13:12 UTC (History)
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Description Zeki Bildirici 2014-09-03 14:20:50 UTC
Hi,

Currently uppercase/lowercase shortcut Shift+F works only when the cursor is inside the word or the whole word is selected.

However, to improve efficiency, like functioning in MS Word, it will be very nice to have the function working when the cursor is at the end of the word which's case is to be changed.

For example if i type 'beneficiary' and i realize that it will start with a capital or whole word should be capitalized i could use the function just at the end of the word without pointing (either with mouse or arrows) the cursor to the word( when the cursor is next to 'y'. Similarly beginning (the letter b) of the word can be active for this function.

Not a serious issue, but it's a very common shortcut and capitalizing is a frequent action while working on official documents with terms and names etc. 

Best regards,
Zeki
Comment 1 Joel Madero 2014-09-03 19:19:42 UTC
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Tools -> Customize -> Keyboard -> bottom section "Category" => Format -> Sentence case.
2. Set a keyboard shortcut (I set Ctrl+Shift+G)
3. Write a sentence without capitalizing the first letter
4. Go to the end of the sentence
5. Do your shortcut keys for sentence caps.

Observed:
Nothing changes

Expected:
first letter gets capitalized

6. Put cursor in any word (such as between the "t" and "he" in the)
7. Do shortcut

Observed/Expected: Capitalization changes.

Bodhi Linux 2.x

New - confirmed
Minor - can slow down professional work but won't prevent it
Low - default seems appropriate, I don't personally think that many people use this particular shortcut + the workaround is relatively straight forward.

NeedsDevEval - might be an easy hack so asking for input.
Comment 2 d.desire 2015-08-05 09:43:46 UTC
to change shift+f3 like mentioned is very important for languages with a lot of capital letters (and used a lot in Mircrosoft word and not inLibre office writerbecause of reported bugs
Comment 3 Robinson Tryon (qubit) 2015-12-13 11:21:09 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2017-01-03 19:49:59 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 Roman Kuznetsov 2019-04-09 17:01:59 UTC
still repro in 6.3, but may be it's an enhancement?
Comment 6 Mihail Balabanov 2021-02-09 12:17:33 UTC
Since the current built-in behavior is not likely to be changed any time soon, I wrote a Basic macro for Cycle Case which honors the selection, autoselects only a single word when there is no selection, uses the current case of the selected text for a starting point instead of a counter, and can cycle the case of word the user just typed (including when there is already a space between it and the cursor).

https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/4036
Comment 7 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2021-12-15 13:12:25 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 54742 ***