Bug 101720

Summary: TABLE: cell styles for text tables
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: J. Magnin <jerry.magnin>
Component: WriterAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: enhancement CC: zen
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Attachments: Preview of color overflow in OLE

Description J. Magnin 2016-08-25 07:21:53 UTC
Created attachment 127020 [details]
Preview of color overflow in OLE

Hello,
I would like to submit a feature request: adding the possibility to have cell styles for text tables in Writer - with background color support - like there exists in Calc; along with "Paragraph styles", "Character styles", etc.

I often need to format some cells in my reports, and it has to be consistent throughout it. Currently, for this, I need to select the cells individually (or by group if they are adjacent) and then setting formatting parameters.
The main problem I have is with cells background color: if I don't select the whole cell, that's only the paragraph background which is modified. I also have to remember which color I assigned to which value to keep consistent in my whole document.
For these tasks, having cell styles would be much more productive.

I know that there's the possibility of including a Calc table, in which I can use cell styles, but the result is not satisfying, as background colors often overflows in adjacent cells (see attachment).
Comment 1 Zenaan Harkness 2016-08-29 10:56:45 UTC
Such styles should be usable anywhere cells are used - e.g. in Calc too obviously, the same (or similar) styles dialogues and features should be available. This seems to be dup.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 34391 ***