Suggestion: Add Formatting Options When Right-Clicking Selected Text

[ITFlip]

Suggestion: Add Formatting Options When Right-Clicking Selected Text[/size]

Purpose: For Quick Changes
Type: Similar to Options Displayed on the Ribbon
Possible Locations
- Add to Right-Click
- Add to the existing “Character Styles” section of the Sidebars.
- Make available on a Sidebar as its own section.

In the attached file, there are examples from MobiSystems MobiDocs, MS Word, OnlyOffice, and Collabora Office for Desktop.

[Woody44]

An interesting suggestion. If I may interject, I think even more useful than a pop-up from a right click would be a basic formatting dialogue box that appears automatically, as this one does in Microsoft Word:

[Jossi]

I must admit that I’m not a fan of any controls that appear automatically (without me doing anything). That’s the typical MS Word way of imposing its suggestions on the user. I prefer SoftMaker’s approach, where you have to explicitly call up what you want. Just my 2 cents.

[Woody44]

I loathe, detest, and despise Microsoft, but in this case I don't agree with you. The little pop-up that opens in Word when you select a section of text does not "suggest" anything. It shows you what the current typeface and size are, and allows you quick access to those and a few other settings if you wish to use them. Move the mouse a hair and the pop-up disappears.

[Jossi]

There’s no accounting for taste. The mere fact that something pops up on its own bothers me. TextMaker’s context menu does essentially the same thing, but it only appears when I call it up. But when it comes to things like that, everyone has their own preferences.

[Woody44]

There’s no accounting for taste. The mere fact that something pops up on its own bothers me. TextMaker’s context menu does essentially the same thing, but it only appears when I call it up. But when it comes to things like that, everyone has their own preferences.

Agreed. To each his/her/its/their own. There's no reason not to offer both. The small window that opens automatically in Word disappears if you move the cursor without making any changes, so it's not obtrusive or obstructive if you don't wish to use it. But it's very handy when you do want to use it.

The right click format window provides access to more formatting options. I like having the option, and I wish TextMaker would offer both options.

[RKanarek]

Greetings,

FWIW, I tend to agree with Jossi. I continue to hate the way that the search feature now also screws up the corresponding side panel; encouraging SM to fiddle further is encouragement misspent.