On Wed January 11 2006 03:26, + Jim Andrews wrote:
> First let me say that I have been using Open Office for several years now
> and I have been completely happy with it, but I do have a question.
> Recently, I had an opportunity to open a spreadsheet that had been created
> with Microsoft Excel. I needed to add to this spreadsheet and to use some
> of the data for comparison purposes against other data within the
> spreadsheet. I had no trouble color highlighting an entire cell. But when I
> tried to change the text color, it would not change. However, when I
> reopened the spreadsheet with Excel, the text colors were there just as I
> had changed them. The problem was, I needed those color changes to do the
> work that I needed to do.
> I had noticed this also when wanting to change text color in an Openoffice
> Word document.
> Is there anyway that I can "turn the text color on" in Openoffice?
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On Thu January 12 2006 01:20, Terry North wrote:
> I'm not sure this is what you're asking and I did not realise (until
> checking just now) that this was possible but I have just changed the
> colour of the "01" in "06/01/2006" to a different colour. You have to
> select the contents of the cell as text. The easiest way is to
> double-click on the cell which enables you to use the mouse pointer as a
> text cursor. Use it to select the portion you wish to highlight and
> proceed. I have a font colour chooser icon on the toolbar and I was able
> to use that. Otherwise /Format /Character.
Also what version of OpenOffice.org are you using ?
The latest is 2.0.1 and has many bugs fixed.
Please reply to users@openoffice.org only.
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