Issue 101822 - Paragraph Style - AutoUpdate: "Font color", "Highlighting" and "Background" icons should trigger the style AutoUpdate
Summary: Paragraph Style - AutoUpdate: "Font color", "Highlighting" and "Background" i...
Status: CONFIRMED
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Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: formatting (show other issues)
Version: OOo 3.1 RC2
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Reported: 2009-05-12 13:23 UTC by fran
Modified: 2017-05-20 11:22 UTC (History)
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Description fran 2009-05-12 13:23:05 UTC 
If I mark the option "update automatically" among style properties of paragrah
type, it works well... but not if I change color of the text.
Comment 1 eric.savary 2009-05-12 23:41:55 UTC 
@fran:

Reproduced but...
...it's a little bit tricky here...

First: the "AutoUpdate" function only works for *paragraph* attributes. Not for
*character* attributes.

Second: character attributes (Fonts etc) can be defined in a *paragraph style*
dialog (soft formatting). But not under "Format - Paragraph" (hard formatting).

The problem is that - and I guess you have used them - some icons of the Format
toolbar don't use the <Style name - Modify - Font> way you can find under the
"Styles & Formatting" panel but execute "Format - Character".

So if you want an AutoUpdate of the paragraph style when you change character
attributes, modify the style in "Styles & Formatting"

@MBA: new description...

- new text document
- Type:
"Test1"<Enter>
"Test2"
- Set the cursor in "Test1"
- Context menu - Edit Paragraph Style
- "Font Effects - Font Color": Blue
-> all paragraphs are formatted in blue = ok!
- Select (double click) the whole "Test1" paragraph
- drop down the "Font color" palette from the Formatting toolbar
- choose (for instance) "white"
-> only "Test1" becomes white = inconsistency!

Analysis: the icon "Font color", "Highlighting" and "Background" execute a soft
formatting (which is ok). They should *also* apply as soft formatting when a
whole paragraph is selected.

Note: I keep that as "DEFECT" from a user point of view but maybe "we" would see
it as "ENHANCEMENT" ("make the icons act different depending on the selected
content")?
Comment 2 eric.savary 2009-05-12 23:57:27 UTC 
Correction:

"Analysis: the icon "Font color", "Highlighting" and "Background" execute a soft
formatting (which is ok). They should *also* apply as *hard* formatting when a
whole paragraph is selected."
Comment 3 eric.savary 2009-05-13 00:01:07 UTC 
Sorry, sorry, sorry! (I mixed up everything!) :(

"Analysis: the icon "Font color", "Highlighting" and "Background" execute a
*hard* formatting (which is ok). They should *also* apply as *soft* formatting
when a whole paragraph is selected."
Comment 4 Marcus 2017-05-20 11:22:15 UTC 
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".