Up to yesterday, when I opened a document in writer and used ctrl F to find a word, it would highlight all hits, one of them in pink and would show small pink lines in the scroll bar (as wide as the scrollbar) on the right side of the document, to indicate other instances of that word, making it easy to navigate. For some reason this is gone. How do I turn that back on?
It has nothing to do with track changes, what I know well
AFAICT such a thing had never existed in Writer.
Return to your question:
https://ask.libreoffice.org/de/question/309415/writer-search-results-in-scroll-bar/
What you describe is the search feature as recently modified in Firefox.
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Great. Closed without a solution!
I reopened the question because “duplicate” reason seems to be an error. It could be “not relevant” or something else but nt “duplicate question”.
It is about Libreoffice Writer and not Firefox.
It appeared a couple months back and I thought “oh great, very useful”. Do Forefox and Libreoffice share code and this may have been an artefact?
And yes. Now that Firefox is being mentioned: It looks exactly like search results in Firefox, but I definitively had that in Writer!
I have a similar problem since a few days ago. It used to be that when I used the find function, it would highlight each instance of the word and include line markers on the scroll bar on the right. Now the functionality is just gone.
I’ve tried looking through menus to see if there is something togglable, but if the option is there it’s like searching for a needle in a haystack. I was using version 6.4, and hadn’t updated it until after the problem occurred in a failed attempt to fix it. I’m now using version 7.3 and still nothing.
I’m wondering if this change occurred when my cat stood on my keyboard, it’s the only thing that I can think of that changed. At which point, one has to wonder, what on earth could the key combination be that switches off such a useful function?
Edit: If somehow I am being gaslit about this particular feature existing and this is a weird Berenstain Bear moment, this seriously needs to be a feature in the future. A lot of different browsers already come with it as standard, it is baffling to me that a word processor does not possess it in this day and age.
@NeneRomanova: to highlight all occurrences of a string, use Edit>Find & Replace or Ctrl+H and press Find All.
I never got line markers in Linux scrollbars. This might be highly dependent on the GUI widget library (the scroll must have a “decoration” feature so that marks can be added to it). You didn’t mention your OS name and there are differences between platform releases.