Re: [libreoffice-users] Table background colours in 5.3

On 25/08/17 08:06, Regina Henschel wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> Steve Edmonds schrieb:
> > On 24/08/17 21:00, Regina Henschel wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Steve Edmonds schrieb:
> > > > Hi.
> > > > Just adding this in case another user has come across this situation.
> > > >
> > > > In LO 5.3.3 Writer I found I could not change the palette or edit any
> > > > colours in Table>Properties>Background.
> > >
> > > Yes, in that dialog you can only select a color from the currently
> > > active palette. You have to change the palette before you open that
> > > dialog. That is not new.
> > >
> > > Changing the palette in Writer or Calc needs a trick: Draw a shape,
> > > e.g. a rectangle, in its context menu use item Area. And there you can
> > > change the palette. It will become the currently active palette for
> > > the entire document. Afterward you can delete the shape.
> > >
> > > This problem exists since the beginning of OpenOffice.
> > >
> > > In newer LibreOffice versions is only the change, that you cannot have
> > > several user defined palettes but only one. It is still possible to
> > > have lot of palettes as common palettes, but they are not editable in
> > > the UI.
> > >
> > > Kind regards
> > > Regina
> > I did see your explanation when I searched but it did not allow me to
> > change the colour (set a user defined colour) for the background of a
> > table. I created a custom palette with my colour but it did not stick
> > when I changed from the shape fill to the table background.
> > Regards, steve
>
> Yes that is because the "Custom" palette is not a true palette. But 
> you can switch this way without problems from the default 
> "Standard"-palette to the "html"-palette, for example.
>
> The implementation of the new Area dialog is work in progress, and for 
> tables, it is not yet available.
>
> Kind regards
> Regina
Thankyou for your explanations, the new Area dialogue is a great feature 
but I did read that it might be some time before fully implemented and 
our discussion might help other users as it was not easy to find the way 
to set a custom colour for the table background.
steve

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