Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to extract a color from a text?

Brian Barker schrieb:
> At 06:19 29/05/2013 -0400, Dan Lewis wrote:
> > On 05/29/2013 12:36 AM, Axel Braun wrote:
> > > Yes, that works for colors that are known to the system, not for
> > > custom colors (like in imported documents)
> >
> > Try this: Open the Styles and Formatting window (use the F11 key to do
> > this). Select the word or letter that has the color you need to know.
> > Right click the paragraph style that is highlighted in this window.
> > Select Modify in the context menu. Then click the Organizer tab. The
> > RGB values are listed in the "Contains" section.
>
> Splendid!  But sadly I think this works only if the colour was
> (sensibly) originally applied as a paragraph style, not if it was
> applied, say, as local character formatting.

That work in such cases too, but you have to make a character style from 
the selected word, not a paragraph style. You will find the RGB-code in 
the organizer tab. And you can use this new style immediately to color 
other portions of the text without the need to define the color.

Kind regards
Regina


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