Description: The behaviour of background coloring (fill) table cells (individual cells, rows, columns) has been changed at some point, so that the paragraph will be background-colored instead of the whole cell/row/column, like it used to be. I believe this has happened to mirror MS Word, however this is really counterproductive and counter-intuitive, as the only way now to fill the whole cell is to select desired cells/rows/columns and then go to [Table Properties] > [Background] and work around here. More often one desires to color the whole cell, not the just the "background of the text". Wouldn't be a problem if there were a separate option or check-mark to select what to color specifically. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Writer > New Document 2. Insert Table 3. Select Cell/Row/Colum/Table 4. Click to fill background [Background Color] from table toolbar 5. Only text-background is colored, not whole cell/row/column. Actual Results: Only text-background is colored Expected Results: Whole cell to be colored (i.e. no "uncolored padding" within cell) Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: Yes OpenGL enabled: Yes Additional Info: Version: 6.4.2.2 (x86) Build ID: 4e471d8c02c9c90f512f7f9ead8875b57fcb1ec3 CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 17763; UI render: default; VCL: win; Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI-Language: en-US Calc: threaded
Created attachment 165142 [details] Screenshot First row: current (new) behaviour Third row: expected (old, better) behaviour
If you need like in the first row you selected the rows: Paragraph - Background - Color If you need like in the third row you selected the rows: Table Properties - Background - Color If you need to higlight text (only if the text exist) - Toolbar - Higlight color.
Thanks for your reply. I'm aware of what you are describing. However, this is not the desired behaviour of the "background filL" tool in the table toolbar - it used to be different (see my description). It changed at some point (version 6 ??) and - I think - not for the better. Having to go into the menu of the table properties every time is a bad solution.
Please follow these steps: 1. Right click on the table toolbar. 2. From the context menu choose Customize Toolbar... 3. Click on "Defaults". 4. Confirm with "Yes", and close the customization dialog. This will reset the table toolbar to its default configuration, which has a new "Table Cell Background Color" button. The behavior of the old "Background Color" button was indeed changed to apply paragraph color instead of cell color, but since then it was removed from the table toolbar in favor of the new button.
(In reply to Maxim Monastirsky from comment #4) > Please follow these steps: > > 1. Right click on the table toolbar. > 2. From the context menu choose Customize Toolbar... > 3. Click on "Defaults". > 4. Confirm with "Yes", and close the customization dialog. > > This will reset the table toolbar to its default configuration, which has a > new "Table Cell Background Color" button. The behavior of the old > "Background Color" button was indeed changed to apply paragraph color > instead of cell color, but since then it was removed from the table toolbar > in favor of the new button. Thank you very much, that is indeed what I meant and I found that button. Thank you also for confirming and explaining. Much appreciated.