https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162897
Bug ID: 162897
Summary: An option to have the colour of the active cell's
background to be configurable.
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 7.5.9.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Calc
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
We are volunteers transcribing historic weather data for use in building a
climatology over the oceans. We do this by having a scanned log page from a
U.S. Navy ship as a background in a LibreCalc spreadsheet. The cells in the
spreadsheet line up with the data grid on the log page, and we enter the data
directly over the value showing on the image.
These logs are very old, and sometimes the writing is very faint which
necessitating changing the image to a greyscale with enhanced gamma and
contrast values. By doing so, our normal font colours also have to be changed.
They also have to be changed by one of our transcribers who is colorblind.
The best font colour for comparing the data entered with the underlying image
data is yellow. However, it is nearly impossible to see the yellow values when
entering the data. You can, of course, see the value being entered in the
formula box at the top left of the spreadsheet, but it is very hard on the eyes
to be switching from one part of the spreadsheet and back, over and over again.
The background colour of the cell, when entering data, is white, and set by the
Options - Libre Office - Application Colors - Document Background. If we change
this colour, it affects other sheets in our spreadsheet, and other applications
of Libre Office.
It would be very beneficial if the background colour of the cell when entering
data could be set with its own variable. It would save us a lot of eyestrain.
Steps to Reproduce:
1.While entering data in a cell note the colour.
2.
3.
Actual Results:
The colour is set by Options - Libre Office - Application Colors - Document
Background.
Expected Results:
It would be wonderful to be able to set this colour separately from the
Document Background. Perhaps something like;
Options - Libre Office - Application Colors - Active Cell Background
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
Additional Info:
It would be wonderful if, at some time, you could add an option like:
Options - Libre Office - Application Colors - Active Cell Background
Thank you.
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