Issue 102612

Summary:	Highlighting (background colour for selected text)
Product:	Impress	Reporter:	karasu <ammann>
Component:	formatting	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	deborah.lee, issues, jeffooo, julielectre
Version:	OOo 3.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	All
Issue Type:	FEATURE	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description karasu 2009-06-09 14:07:02 UTC

Unlike OOo Writer, OOo Impress fails to support "highlighting": the current
highlight color can't be applied to the background of a text selection. This
appears to be a very basic shortcoming, and the absence of this functional
feature is irritating given the availability of purely decorative features such
as character engraving and embossing.

Thanks for considering its addition.

Comment 1 wolframgarten 2009-06-09 14:18:29 UTC

Reassigned.

Comment 2 jeffooo 2013-08-05 09:57:46 UTC

Hi,

(In reply to karasu from comment #0)
>the absence of this functional feature is irritating given the availability of purely decorative features such as character engraving and embossing.

+ 1 

Best regards

Comment 3 jeffooo 2013-08-05 10:13:59 UTC

It's interesting feature for Draw too, to create logo etc..

Thanks for considering its addition.

Comment 4 Deborah Lee 2014-06-07 11:16:21 UTC

Deborah Lee 07-June 2014

I was able to replicate the reported issue on a Macbook Air running Mac OS X 10.9.2 with Open Office version 4.1.0.

- Upon opening Impress, the Text Properties toolbar is open and there are many options but highlighting background text is not present.

- Upon opening Writer, the Text Properties toolbar is open and there are many options INCLUDING highlighting background text.

Compared with Microsoft Office 2008:
Powerpoint is also missing the feature.
Word has this feature.

There is a work-around however which is to insert a text box (same size as the text) and then the background colour of this can be set.

It is unclear if the exclusion of this feature in Impress is intentional or not as many other decorative features are still available.

Comment 5 Jihef 2014-08-05 21:21:15 UTC

*** This issue has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 6 Lavinie 2015-09-02 04:00:13 UTC

I also vote for adding an highlighting function in OOO Impress: I need it for classroom work, because changing text color is sometimes not possible (yellow, for example, cannot be read). 

The same issue is described in Issue 115755 (Unconfirmed, 2 votes), with the addition that Google docs Presentation supports highlighting : 
"Google docs Presentation application which lets you create PowerPoint presentations  does offer a feature to highlight text on a slide. I have also confirmed that changing the position and size of the text maintains the highlight. If you download this file as a .ppt or .pptx and open it in Ingress or PowerPoint, then it loses the highlight formatting." ( Christopher Cole 2013-09-25 02:26:25 UTC)