Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 23843
Font color icon is not affecting newly inserted text
Last modified: 2013-08-07 15:31:33 UTC
Font color icon is not working as expected. to reproduce. Select color in font color. activate the font color by one click. type a text. the text color is not changed as expected. Correct behaviour: when we want to change color of existing text: Block the text, select the color. Finish. This is correct in OOo 1.1.1a is same as in other application. when we want new color applied to text we want to type. just select the color. finish. In OOo 1.1.1a to get this need extra work.
TM->SBA: Please have a look, thanks !
*** Issue 17424 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
This is FAQ in some message board that I read. We really should fix this.
add Stephan to CC. Stephan, is this GSL or framework ? if GSL, please take over. Thanks
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SBA: This "works as designed" -> Not a defect, but an enhancement. Note: MS Word does it that way. Workaround: Type an extra blank and select it (i.e. <Shift>+<Arrow left>) before clicking the icon. Then the successively entered text gets the color attribute while typing. To end the coloured text input, type <Arrow right> at the end of the text to set back to standard. I adjusted the summary to reflect the findings. Reassigned to Bettina.
*** Issue 75473 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Any ideas on when/if this issue will be dealt with?
*** Issue 78109 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
I ran into this same confusing behavior in 2.4.0 and posted a question on the mailing list about it. I eventually found this issue report through a few others. For those of you reading this without reading some of the other reports, a workaround does exist to get the required behavior. 1. Click on Formatting toolbar and customize it. 2. Click on "Add..." to add a new command. 3. Select "format" category. 4. Scroll down and you will see TWO items named "Font Color" with the same icons. 5. The second one has the desired behavior of changing the current font color. It would be nice to at *least* see the identical "Font Color" tool bar command renamed to something else. In any case, I also believe the default behavior should be changed to "set current color", just like bold/italic/underline, if for no other reason then the fact that the default color buttons on the toolbar are the only toolbar buttons that don't precisely mimic the effects of changing options in the Format -> Character menu.
Here is an incomplete list of other issues that seem to be duplicates of this one, and should probably be marked as such: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=36035 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=65930 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=61816 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=60656 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=62952 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=89126 (applies to 3.0 beta; not sure if duplicate) There are more than this; I did not go through every page of "text color" and "font color" search results.
This issue still persists in OpenOffice 3.1. And in the later versions, the duplicate font color icon that works "correctly" appears to have been removed. However, as issue 94847 (another duplicate of this issue) points out, the correct behavior occurs when the color is selected through the menu presented by the "character" icon, though this is much less convenient that using the font color icon/palate would be. Would it be possible to map the behavior from choosing the color by the character menu to choosing the color from the font color icon/palate? Also, this issue seems to have been raised many times in one form or another, and it has persisted for years. Not to complain, but is there any word on when/if this feature might be included or whether it is under consideration at all?
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To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".