Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 63200
Let "Find" function end at the starting point in the document
Last modified: 2016-11-06 14:28:59 UTC
Often, while reading a long document, we want to search for a particular word. We use the Find function for this. Often, the intention is just to look up the text containing that keyword, and then return to our reading. But Writer does not help the reader here: The Find function goes around the document endlessly. This in itself is rather useless: Why would a user want to scan the document more than once? At least Writer should tell him that they have reached the starting point; and does he want to go on? Secondly, the user is taken AWAY from the page he was browsing, and left at an unfamiliar point. He has to browse through the entire document to come back where he left off. Now consider the case where the user aborts the search (by pressing Cancel or ESC). In this case, the user is left where OOo found the last match. In both cases, the OOo behavior is undesirable: After searching the document, the Find function should leave the user at the precise point where he started. This is what MS Word does. It even provides a helpful summary statement while dropping us off. OOo should do the same (the statement could be "total x matches found. The search was completed/aborted." (only one of the "completed" and "aborted" should be shown in the message, to reflect what happened. *** The issue can be understood better by comparing it with a city tour operator service: OPerator A takes us around the city, and keeps visiting the same spots repeatedly till we ask the driver to stop. He lets us get off at the last spot. We have to catch a cab to reach home/hotel. Operator B also takes us around the city, but he shows us the city only once. After that, if we want, we can have another round. In case we stop him midway through the tour, he takes us back to the spot where we boarded the bus. I don't know about others, but I would prefer operator B any time.
Reassigned to SBA.
reassigend to requirements
Operator B! AOO410m14(Build:9760) - Rev. 1573062 2014-03-01_04:11:01 - Rev. 1573123 Debian
Isn't it a duplicate of Issue 8288?
like comment 4 *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of issue 8288 ***
closing issue due to comment #4 and comment #5.