[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 133300] New: Please add the ability to search for Page Styles

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133300

            Bug ID: 133300
           Summary: Please add the ability to search for Page Styles
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 6.4.2.2 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: luke.kendall at gmail.com

Search for Page Styles does not work.

Although there is a checkbox for Paragraph Styles in the Attributes sub-panel
of the Find & Replace dialogue, there is no way to specify the page style you
wish to search for.

I would expect the Find drop-down list to be populated with the applied page
styles (i.e. those in use) in the document, to allow you to select one.  It
doesn't. If you enter the name of a Paragraph style manually, that doesn't
work.

Doing any kind of Find, with the Paragraph Style attribute checked, fails.

Please add this feature.  When you are trying to clean up the styles used in a
document (especially one that has been converted from Word), you generally have
many, many page styles created by the conversion process.

At present the only way to do this is to page through the document to ensure
the cursor appears on each page, and wait there an indeterminate period until
you guess the page style indicator at the bottom, or the page style selected in
the Manage Styles dialogue (if you chose the Page style tab), updates.  For my
book, that can take up to about five seconds.  For a 450pp book, it's a slow
and disheartening process, and easy to slip up and miss one - in which case you
have to start your manual search all over again.

I suppose another approach might be to unzip the XML and look through that for
the use of the page style name, and then find some nearby text that's probably
on that page, and then move around in the document in Writer to try to find it
for sure.

So, please consider this enhancement.

There would also be an obvious follow-on enhancement of allowing the Replace
field to be populated with available page styles, and if Replace is clicked,
the chosen page style is applied (as far as that's possible).

I only discovered today that usually, you can double-click on a page style in
the Manage Styles dialogue, to apply that style to the current page.  Very
useful!

(This enhancement submitted following some very helpful discussion in Bug
133258, correctly resolved and not a bug.)

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