Find and Replace: Contents of Find and Replace field lost on document switch

[walt.farrell]

Recipe:

1. Have two documents open.
2. In one, enter values into the "Find" and the "Replace with" fields in the Find and Replace panel.
3. Switch to the other document. Switch back to the first document.
4. "Find" and "Replace with" fields are empty. Their values can be retrieved from the stack (click the field's pulldown) but it should not be necessary to do that and it disrupts workflow. Also, it confuses the user, further disrupting the workflow.

I don't think this has been reported before, at least not using terms I could discover

[MikeTO]

Agreed.

Same on macOS.

[MikeTO]

I started to wonder how other apps with find & replace formatting handled this. I know most apps keep Find & Replace populated when you switch documents but I wondered how they dealt with the population of formatting. What if document A had a style named Test and document B didn't, and the Find dialog was set to search for Test.

I tried it in Word and it leaves the style populated even though it's not in document B. That way, if you return to document A you won't have lost anything. But the moment you actually click find or replace then the non-applicable style will be cleared. This seems like a good approach.

[Dan C]

Hi Walt and MikeTo,

Thanks for this, it's a known issue and I've added these reports.

Lee