This problem still exists in LO 5.3.3.2. My opinion is, that it is very illogical and distracting that the background button in the table toolbar sets the paragraph background color and not the cell background color.
In this bug report in comment 2 from sophie I found in the first place the ability to resolve this issue: That I have to select the cell first and can then do the backgound operations with the button in the table toolbar. It should be enough, to put the cursor in a cell to change its background color. I think in the table toolbar should be only functions which deal with table- and not with paragraph-settings. In the breeze-icon-set there should be two different icons for the buttons for cell- and paragraph-background, too. It would be useful too, if the functionality would be the same in "table-toolbar -> background color" and in the table-properties-dialogue ->Background-settings. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1485955 Title: [upstream] EDITING: Background Color button from Table toolbar should change cell background instead of paragraph background Status in LibreOffice: Confirmed Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Steps to reproduce: 1. Launch LibreOffice Writer 2. Insert table to the new document (Table -> Insert -> Table) 3. Write some multirow text in table cells 4. Try to change cell background: 4.1. place cursor on desired cell 4.2. select color from palette from "Background Color" drop-down (located on Table toolbar). 4.3. click "Background Color" button on Table toolbar. Expected results: background color of TABLE CELL (where cursor was) is changed to desired color. Actual results: background color of TEXT PARAGRAPH (where cursor was) is changed to desired color. Workaround: There is slow non-intuitive background - select whole cell, select color from palette from "Background Color" drop-down (located on Table toolbar), click "Background Color" button on Table toolbar. Affected versions: LibreOffice 3.5.7.2 Build ID: 350m1(Build:2) = pre-installed Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS version; LibreOffice 4.2.7.2 Build ID: 420m0(Build:2) = pre-installed Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS version; LibreOffice 4.4.2.2 Build ID: 40m0(Build:2) = pre-installed Ubuntu 15.04 version. Comment: I can't believe how this bug is possible. It is inherited from OO.org (I saw it on OO.org 3.2 in Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS too). Microsoft Word 2003 and 2007 of course have normal behaviour with cell background. I attached pdf document with screenshots. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: libreoffice 1:3.5.7-0ubuntu8 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-61.100~precise1-generic 3.13.11-ckt22 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-61-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.9 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Aug 18 11:45:50 2015 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: libreoffice UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/1485955/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
