[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 138658] UI: Confusing categorization of the 'Hidden' feature

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138658

--- Comment #21 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to David from comment #19)
> "Hidden Paragraph" field and "Hide
> Whitespace" are available, so why not "Hidden Text" also?

Those are fields, special kind of objects. Their insertion is necessarily
implemented as separate commands.

On the other hand, *usually* there is no special command for numerous *object
properties* (attributes). "Hidden" is a character-level attribute applying to
objects, such as text runs and paragraphs.

There are *some* exceptions to the rule, e.g. "bold" or "underline", that have
their own dedicated commands. However, those exceptions are created because
their use is very common, not because we do it for all possible properties. So
introduction of a dedicated command to set a property requires a good reason.
And in case of rarely used and potentially confusing property like "hidden",
such a reason could be e.g. inability to have it using existing mechanism.

But we have an already existing way to apply this attribute, which allows to
use it in customization: that's using character styles. Create a special
character style, which would only apply this attribute; then applying it to
selection would be as simple as double-clicking the style in the Styles panel
(F11). Save it to a template that you use for your documents (e.g., by
default), and assign a key combination to the style in Customization dialog
(yes, is allows to assign key shortcuts to styles), and you may use that using
keyboard.

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