Hello Jason,
2008/5/21 Jason Cipriani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am trying to set the font color so when I type new text, it appears > in that color. I click the "Font Color" tool bar icon and choose the > color I want. > > What I expect to happen: > - Toolbar button changes to selected color. > - Typing text types text in that color. > > What actually happens: > - The document is mysteriously scrolled to the very last page, no > matter what page I'm currently looking at. I cannot reproduce this behaviour with OOo2.4 under GNU/Linux: what version of OOo are you using and on which operating system? > > - The cursor changes to a paint-bucket resembling the fill icon in an > image editing program... prompting me to do... something? The way the font colour tool works is not as you expected it. The "correct" (???) way of using it, is to select the text you want to format and then click on the button. If you simply click on the button, as you correctly reported the cursor changes into a paint bucket: OOo expects you to select the text you want to format with the new colour, then it reverts to the normal cursor. > > - Clicking on text or randomly clicking other things on the screen > makes the paint bucket go away but does not seem to affect the > document in any way. you have to select some text. > > - Typing text does not type text in that color; it continues typing in > black. To change the colour of the text you are better off using the character style. If you are not familiar with the character styles you can either search the archives of this list or write again. > > > I am not sure what I am missing. Questions: > > 1) Why does it scroll to the end of the document and change the cursor > to a paint bucket when I change the font color? What is it asking me > to do here? I am confused... This may be a bug. > > 2) How do I change the color of new text that I type? use a character style, or select the text then use the font colour tool (once the new colour is set it will stick as you type further characters. > > 3) If the answer to #2 doesn't involve the font color button, then > what does that button do? see above. Cheers, Michele
