Issue 18375 - Request drop-down list of special characters in find box
Summary: Request drop-down list of special characters in find box
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1 RC3
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial with 2 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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Keywords: oooqa
: 65147 (view as issue list)
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Reported: 2003-08-19 03:07 UTC by argray
Modified: 2013-02-07 22:35 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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A document that contains a macro that has a drop down for 'special characters' and gets around some other limitations of the current Find & Replace. (25.94 KB, application/vnd.sun.xml.writer)
2005-12-22 20:00 UTC, iannz 		no flags Details
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Description argray 2003-08-19 03:07:48 UTC 
While the regular expression tools allow for powerful searches, casual users
could use a simple tool to seek out special characters like end-of-line, tab,
page break and section break.  A relatively straightforward way to accomplish
this would be to provide a drop-down list of such characters, so the user can
simply pick the relevent one(s).
Comment 1 Rainer Bielefeld 2003-08-19 04:31:03 UTC 
Hi Andrew,

you are right, that would be a modern way to make that function
accessable.

Rainer
Comment 2 mchase 2003-08-19 07:00:56 UTC 
The "Special Characters" dialog that appears for Insert -> Special 
Character would be useful in its own right.  The regular expression 
meta-characters could be added as a subset.
Comment 3 h.ilter 2003-08-19 12:30:45 UTC 
Reassigned to BH
Comment 4 eric.savary 2005-05-26 20:11:17 UTC 
Removing 'accessibility' keyword, since if it *benefits* to accessibility, it is
not an accessibility *requirement* and thus shouldn't appear in accessibility
queries. it's a general *usability* enhancement.
Comment 5 iannz 2005-12-22 20:00:34 UTC 
Created attachment 32660 [details]
A document that contains a macro that has a drop down for 'special characters' and gets around some other limitations of the current Find & Replace.
Comment 6 eric.savary 2006-05-07 13:47:05 UTC 
*** Issue 65147 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 7 bettina.haberer 2010-05-21 15:00:33 UTC 
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on
my owner to the owner "requirements".