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.