To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=99034 Issue #|99034 Summary|Calc: Replace All: confirm & count of replacements, li |ke Writer Component|Spreadsheet Version|OOo 2.4.0 Platform|PC URL| OS/Version|Linux Status|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard| Keywords| Resolution| Issue type|DEFECT Priority|P3 Subcomponent|editing Assigned to|spreadsheet Reported by|nicklevinson
------- Additional comments from nicklevin...@openoffice.org Mon Feb 9 07:23:30 +0000 2009 ------- When doing a global search-and-replace, confirmation of completion would be helpful, and even more helpful would be a count of replacements performed. Both are available in Writer but neither one is in Calc. The usefulness of a count in Calc is in determining if one has changed too few or too many instances in formulas or was just right. Formulas are not easy to see simultaneously in many cells, especially when they're long. For instance, suppose one anticipates that a string replacement in formulas will change 50 formulas and the count reveals that 500 were replaced, then a user could assume there's an error in their replacement-process logic and immediately undo the replacements to reverse the damage. Similarly, if the numbers were the other way around, the user could assume their logic missed something and they could redesign the find-and-replace parameters. Counts would help. How to replicate in either program, especially useful in Calc: 1. In a new document, type lots of the letter "a" (without quote marks). If it's in Calc, type them into lots of cells. In Writer, holding the key down a while is good enough. 2. Give the Find command. Search for "a". Replace with "b". (No quote marks for either.) Leave Whole Words Only uncheckmarked. In Calc's Find, under More Options, be sure it'll search values, not formulas or notes. 3. Click Replace all. Result: Replacement will succeed. However, while Writer will confirm with "Search key replaced . . . [#] times.", Calc gives no message when done. That is a problem when the fact of replacement is not visible without burrowing through a document, for example, in the case of Calc by examining formulae or in the case of Writer by paging through a long document. In Calc, a partial kludge is available. If you repeat the identical search-and-replace when the string to search for is absent from the document or selection, the result will be the message "Search key not found." However, this does not produce a count and if, as sometimes seems to happen, an option to search a selection only becomes without warning an option to search the whole sheet or document, unwanted replacements may ensue. Quick searches would confirm completion almost immediately, but, since large documents have more to search, search-and-replace generally takes longer, requiring feedback. None of my searches produced a cursor representing waiting (e.g., an hourglass or a wristwatch), so, if that's present in your design, it doesn't show up on screen early enough to serve to notify by its departure that the process is finished. A count is useful, because if I want to see if I've used a string too many times I can replace the string by itself and get a count without changing the document (other than changing its metainformation). I use such a feature in word processing for literary improvement by looking for overused words, and it might be useful in Calc for counting formulas sharing a given string, for instance. I used OOo 2.4 (the latest that I have), with Calc and Writer open simultaneously, on Fedora Core 4 Linux with the Gnome 2.10.0 desktop on a Dell Latitude C840 laptop. No retrofit is suggested. Issue 62188 may be relevant if the original author used incorrect terminology; and it is a bit confusing in its content. Thank you. -- Nick --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@sc.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@sc.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
