Description: Whenever I create footnote, it's always highlighted in grey background color and I apparently am unable to change it to make it non-highlighted or even highlighted with some other background color. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open Libreoffice Writer 2.Write "Hey, how are you doing man?" 3.At the end of the sentence, add a footnote (Menu at Top > Insert > Header and Footer > Footer) Actual Results: The footnote has grey background color and the background color cannot be change to none or some other color. Expected Results: The footnote shouldn't have any background color by default, and the background color should be modifiable to any color of my choice Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: Yes OpenGL enabled: Yes Additional Info: Version: 7.4.1.2 / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 40(Build:2) CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US 7.4.1-1 Calc: threaded
Your system is set to "View - Field shadings". Turn that off and the visual-only shading will go away. (It isn't there in print preview.)