Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 12771
background color assignement via object bar in tables
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:27:39 UTC
Conditions: - editing an RTF file - containing a table - some cells have a background color Defect: selecting different cells, some with background color and some without background color, and trying to assign a new background color produces strange results
Table stuff
In OO Writer, you can set background colors in tables - for the whole table - for a row - for single cells. See the Options in the Table propeties dialog on the background page. I think, this should solve your problem. Otherwise please attach your RTF document to this issue, give a bit more precise description and reopen this issue.
Sorry, I missed specifying how I set the background color.... I did it using the toolbar and I thought the color would be applyed to all selected cells (whichever was their previous background color). Thanks, Marco.
I do not really understand, what your problem is. Could you please attach the file with the table to this issue (or provide it directly via eMail) so that wae can see, what's going wrong here. Thank you very much!
Created attachment 5737 [details] test case
Ok, I'm sending you the file I use. To test the case I signaled please simply follow this steps: - in one column you see some coloured cells - select more cells including the already coloured ones - assign a new color using the background color widget present in the toolbar Problem: I get incorrect background color assignment (some cells mantain their original color). Note: My version is OpenOffice 1.1 Beta for Win32 platform I hope this will help... Thanks again, Marco.
Yes, now I can see what's happening in your document. And I can tell you, it is not a bug/issue. The colored cells do not have the color from the table properties. It is assigned in the paragraph properties. And the paragraph color is always above the cell color in a table. If you go to the paragraph properties and set the paragraph background to "no fill" you'll see that everything works fine.
Issue closed. User didn's notice that color was set for the paragraph background, and not for the table (cell) background.
Sorry, but in your conclusions you are wrong. The first time I assigned background color I simply used the background color widget in the toolbar, so I don't know which item got the color property (I suppose the user should not care about it). The secon time you assign the background color just in the same way so I think it should simply change without asking me tho investigate how was the background color stored. Well, I'm reopening cìthe case just because I think it is an issue, if you want me to stop thinking so, please ask me so I'll simply continue this simple workaround: background color=no fill + background color=newcolor. Bye, Marco.
Yes, I know about the problem. When the cursor is in a table cell (without having the cell selected), the background controller in the table object bar assigns a paragraph background (and not a cell background, as one would expect to). It is planned to change this in the future (OO 2.0 maybe), but it is not as easy as it may look like. MRU->OS: Could you give a short update on the technical background of this and keep the issue, until we have created a more intuitive solution of the problem? Thank you very much.
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SBA: According to the OpenOffice.org roadmap http://tools.openoffice.org/releases this issue was retargeted to "OOo Later".
*** Issue 36080 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
*** Issue 94497 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
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