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

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

--- Comment #16 from Luke Kendall <luke.kendall at gmail.com> ---
"Searching for attributes is not meant to work like you imagined: setting a
checkmark to an attribute, then put the wanted attribute values into
Find/Replace boxes. That would, e.g., be meaningless if you check several
attributes... The feature allows searching for *text* defined in the Find box,
which has the attributes selected that simply differ from default. See help [1]
for details."

Interesting. To me that indicates the Page Style should never have been
included in the Attributes list.  I don't think your view of the F&R panel
matches how it works when searching for Paragraph Styles, which is a valuable
and intuitive feature of Writer.

"A different thing is that actually selecting "Page style" attribute doesn't
seem to work anyway."

Agreed.

My request is that a user should be able to search to find a page style, just
as they can currently search for a Paragraph Style.

"Note also that page style is a setting of a paragraph (style), so searching
for "page style" would only make sense when searching for paragraphs ..."

I don't think I understand the above statement, because it makes no sense to
me. As far as I know, a Page Style applies to a page, not to a paragraph.  If
someone did think that way though it could explain why someone included it in
the Attributes... panel.  The statement implies that each paragraph in a page
could have a different Page Style, which seems to me to lead to all sorts of
confusion and complexity.

The need for a search for Page Style is quite high because when Writer loads a
.docx file, it generates vast numbers of page styles with different names even
though most of them contain the same settings.

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