Bug 81179

Summary: FORMATTING: Allow format painter to paint styles a line of text by clicking to the left of the line
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: yokesh <yokeshsm>
Component: WriterAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: enhancement CC: kelemeng, philipz85
Priority: low    
Version: 4.3.0.2 rc   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Windows (All)   
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Bug Blocks: 114912    
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Description yokesh 2014-07-10 15:15:01 UTC

    
Comment 1 yokesh 2014-07-10 15:16:26 UTC
Created attachment 102552 [details]
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Comment 2 yokesh 2014-07-10 15:17:31 UTC
Created attachment 102553 [details]
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Comment 3 yokesh 2014-07-10 15:17:59 UTC
Created attachment 102554 [details]
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Comment 4 yokesh 2014-07-10 15:18:21 UTC
Created attachment 102555 [details]
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Comment 5 yokesh 2014-07-10 15:18:51 UTC
Created attachment 102556 [details]
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Comment 6 Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) 2014-07-10 15:57:08 UTC
Interesting concept. Will make it easier to select multiple entire lines, rather than dragging from beginning to end.
Comment 7 yokesh 2014-07-15 12:19:26 UTC
Dear philips thanks for your words.As im new to this website & testing your response really encouraging me to go further through this. 
thank you.
Comment 8 Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2024-04-03 11:32:44 UTC
After a bit of testing, it seems like this works somewhat differently now in Writer:

- if there are paragraph level DF settings to be copied, they are copied to the target paragraph with a single click on the left margin, see my test file attachment 193458 [details]
This behavior is new since 24.2 commit:
tdf#103706: sw: Revert "Format paintbrush default behaviour"

- if there are character level DF settings, those are not copied with a single click

- if one is dragging the mouse on the left margin, both character and paragraph level settings are copied

- In Word, only character level formatting is copied whether you click once or drag it to other rows.