Find and Replace: having "Other Options" always open by default

[Moloch981]

Hello, I need help with LibreOffice (26.2.5.2)

Usually, when I clicked the “Find and Replace” icon, the lower part of the dialog box with the “Other options” (search only in the current selection, regular expressions, etc.) was already open by default.

Since yesterday evening, this doesn’t happen anymore, I have to manuallu click the “+”

Yesterday evening the power went off while I was working with LibreOffice, I don’t know if that’s related. After, when the power came back and I turned the PC back on and re-opened the file I was working on, I got the introductory LibreOffice dialogue, as if it was the first time I was opening it (choose the aspect/view, classic or tabs, etc.). Other things were a bit weird too (the AltSearch extension wasn’t working and the icon had disappeared, for example).

So, I would like to know how to have the “Other options” part in the “Find and Replace” dialogue window ALWAYS OPEN, by default (like it was before).
This is a feature that I use a lot, and it would be very annoying if I had to manually click it all the time.

Thanks

[Moloch981]

So, in Calc it seems that when I click “Find and Replace”, “Other options” is already opened if I have some cells already selected, otherwise not

In Writer, if I select text and then click “Find and Replace”, the selected text appears automatically in the “Find” box: this didn’t happen before.

[Moloch981]

@LeroyG

Kashida-sensitive

Thank you both

I selected “Kashida-sensitive”, since I don’t have files in Japanese it shouldn’t impact at all my work whether it’s selected or not, while providing a solution to this problem

[LeroyG]

Leave at least one of these options marked: Wildcards, Regular expressions, Similarity search (I mark [x] Regular expressions).

EDIT (after @sokol92 comment).
Also stays open with any of:
[x] Cell styles
[x] Souds like (Japanese)
[x] Kashida-sensitive

[sokol92]

The “Kashida-sensitive” option, which is set by default, helps me out.