<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - Find/Replace affects formatting in undesired ways" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62603#c18">Comment # 18</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - Find/Replace affects formatting in undesired ways" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62603">bug 62603</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:luke@zeta.org.au" title="Luke Kendall <luke@zeta.org.au>"> Luke Kendall</a> <pre>(In reply to Justin L from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=62603#c15">comment #15</a>) > Created <a href="http://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=127228" name="attach_127228" title="findReplace_formatTest.doc: simplify testing with a copy/paste/highlight doc.">attachment 127228</a> <a href="http://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=127228&action=edit" title="findReplace_formatTest.doc: simplify testing with a copy/paste/highlight doc.">[details]</a> > findReplace_formatTest.doc: simplify testing with a copy/paste/highlight doc. > > confirmed still a bug in LO 5.3dev, and has existed since at least > bibisect-43all LO3.6 (oldest I can test in Ubuntu 16.04). > > Regex is irrelevant - it happens without regex as well. Basically, > Find/Replace applies the format of the first character across the entire > replaced string. Could I just add that the effect goes one character beyond the end of the replaced string? I.e. the font attribute of the last character of the match I think is applied to the character past the replaced string. And since searching for text attributes (e.g., italic) makes Find & Replace unreliable (<a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - EDITING: Find & Replace, using Format, makes F&R unreliable" href="show_bug.cgi?id=103400">https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103400</a>), there's also no way to find them with a search, you have to scan every character of your document by eye to find them.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>