Bug 158567 - Right-click on misspelled words only offers spelling-related functions, no formatting options
Summary: Right-click on misspelled words only offers spelling-related functions, no fo...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 89673
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.6.2.1 release
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Reported: 2023-12-06 19:28 UTC by kaesezeh
Modified: 2023-12-07 20:43 UTC (History)
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Description kaesezeh 2023-12-06 19:28:29 UTC
Description:
In Impress and Writer, if one right-clicks on a word that the current spellcheck says is misspelled, one only gets spelling/correction-related options, which can be annoying as hell. Maybe I don't want to bullied into correcting the word's spelling, adding it to the dictionary, ignoring all, etc. -- maybe I just want to italicize or clone the formatting. The fact that LibreOffice thinks it needs to force me to deal with what IT thinks is most important first rather than let me decide what I want to do is a first-class usability dud. The app should

- either offer all options as usual PLUS the spelling-related ones (preferred option);
- or offer an option whether the user can say which of the two kinds of context menus it is supposed to offer when the user clicks on a misspelled word.

Sorry, but having the app just say "Screw you, I won't even allow you do do any other context menu stuff before you deal with my spelling opinions" is just plain stupid and this has been like this for as long as I can remember.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. mistype a word so that LO labels it misspelled
2. right-click on it
3. curse the app

Actual Results:
stupid context menu

Expected Results:
useful context menu


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
BLAHHH, there is no other info
Comment 1 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-12-07 20:43:00 UTC
Thanks for the report. I agree this could be improved, it's very common to have both the usual actions + the spellcheck suggestions in the one context menu nowadays, for example in web browsers.
Issue is already tracked in bug 89673 so marking as duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 89673 ***