Re: [libreoffice-users] Text highlighting in LO Impress

Hello Vladimir,

v_2e@ukr.net schrieb:
>    Hello!
>
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:26:22 +0100 (BST)
> Tom Davies<tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>  wrote:
>
> > Hi :)
> > Once you have selected the words can you right-click and see what
> > options you have in there for formatting text?  I haven't tried it
> > but often when programs don't let you access their formatting
> > tool-bars you can still use a right-click menu (or keyboard
> > short-cuts such as Ctrl B to make things bold) Regards from Tom :)
>    Yes, you are right - there is a possibility to tune the text options
> via the right-click menu, but it doesn't let to change the background
> of separate words.
>
>    And what seems even more strange to me is that there is a special
> button "text highlighting" in LO Writer, but there is no such button in
> LO Impress. I thought all the LO programs use the same component
> (widget) for text editing and thus should have the same functions, but
> now it turns out they don't.
>    Is it so?

Yes and no. The texts in Draw/Impress behave similar to the text box 
(drawing object with T icon) in Writer. That is different from the 
normal text in Writer. Therefore you can define a style only for the 
whole object not for single characters. Hard styling is restricted to 
font attributes of the tabs 'font' and 'font effect'. If you search in 
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/ you will find a lot of issues about the 
restriction of text in Draw/Impress.

In Draw/Impress it is no problem to group objects. So for getting a 
background, draw a colored rectangle, place it behind the word, and 
group all together. That has the additional effect, that you can animate 
this 'hightlighting'.

Kind regards
Regina

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