Issue 110527 - Colors do not apply to whole cell when it contains superscripts
Summary: Colors do not apply to whole cell when it contains superscripts
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Calc
Classification: Application
Component: formatting (show other issues)
Version: OOO310m19
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Keywords: oooqa
: 110670 (view as issue list)
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Reported: 2010-03-31 15:20 UTC by robdibley
Modified: 2013-01-29 21:52 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description robdibley 2010-03-31 15:20:31 UTC 
Fill a cell with string that contains a typical superscripted component, such as
a date e.g. :
Friday 26th March

The "th" gets automatically superscripted.

Now select the cell and change the text color to a different color.

You will see that only the part before the superscripted text is colored.

Workaround : you can get around this by coloring within the text, i.e. by
editing the text entry and coloring it, rather than coloring the whole cell.
However this results in further problems as the coloring is then not able to be
changed for the whole cell, even when the in-text coloring is removed.
Comment 1 robdibley 2010-03-31 15:26:21 UTC 
Additional note :

after playing with this some more it becomes apparent that it is as a result of
saving to and then loading from xls format.

when first editing the file it works fine, however after a save and load, the
color settings seem to be split around the superscript, so that changing the
cell setting only effects the first part, and not the rest.
Comment 2 Regina Henschel 2010-03-31 15:33:40 UTC 
I cannot confirm it. Here the whole text is colored. Did you really select the
cell? The cell should be shown with blue background then.

Please give a very precise step-by-step description. (Where you click,
double-click or single-click, how you move your mouse...)

Does it work, if you use Format > Cells > Font Effects?
Comment 3 robdibley 2010-03-31 15:47:27 UTC 
Full step-by-step description :

Create New Spreadsheet
Enter "Friday 26th March" in any cell
Save as XLS format
Close sheet
Open saved sheet
Select cell by clicking once on any part of it
select any font color using the "Font Color" drop down on the toolbar.
only the first part (before superscript) will change

same thing happens when using Format > Cells > Font Effects

also works if you select an area containing the cell, or a column, or a row.



I hadn't realised the XLS save / load was required as I had been working on this
spreadsheet for a while.
Comment 4 Regina Henschel 2010-03-31 16:18:52 UTC 
It is a problem with the xls format.

I can reproduce it here with xls format in DEV300m75 on WinXP.
The error does not occur in ods format.
Comment 5 Regina Henschel 2010-04-07 16:40:45 UTC 
*** Issue 110670 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***