On Nov 2, 2006, at 11:22 PM, James McKenzie wrote:
John Varela wrote:
OpenOffice 2.04 for Mac:
The setting of Format/Format Cells/Font Effects/Font color is
ignored.
John:
I'm using the Intel version and the font color is sticking. I used
red
and turquoise.
Also, I am a volunteer and thus cannot provide one-on-one assistance.
However, I would like to know what you are doing that this does not
work
on your system. Please provide the following details:
Version of Mac OS X, platform (Power PC or Intel (the newer Macs are
Intel based and have a name such as Solo or Duo, the Power PCs are
G3/G4/G5), and if you have recently upgraded the X11 program.
Intel Mac, OS 10.4.8, OOo 2.04, and no, I saw a note on the mailing
list about the latest X11 so refrained from upgrading.
What I am doing that does not work is selecting a spreadsheet cell,
then either clicking the font color icon on the tool bar or drilling
down through the menus to change font color. The color of the
characters in the cell does not change. Cells that were in colored
fonts when I was running 2.01 are no longer colored in 2.04. All
cells are displayed black on both the screen and in page preview.
Similarly, number formats that call for negative numbers to be red
are not displayed as red on either the screen nor the page preview,
though this worked in 1.0, 1.1, and 2.01. They do, however, print
red. So maybe fonts colored in the cell format would print in color,
but I haven't chosen to waste the paper and ink to find out.
Lastly, I have some conditional formatting that calls for coloring
the font, coloring the cell border, or coloring the background,
depending. Cell border and background colors do change, but font
color does not. Again, I haven't tested printing. And again, this
worked in earlier versions of OOo.
John Varela
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