Prior to updating LibreOffice to 7.6.2.x (i.e. I had LO 7.5.x.x), I was able to add and use 2 font colour buttons and 2 background colour buttons in the formatting toolbar so that I can set different colours (for each element/button) for quick convenience. But as I have upgraded to 7.6.2.1, this functionality is no longer possible. Undesired behaviour - scenario example: If I choose and apply a font colour in one font colour button, the other font colour button changes too to match the first font colour button! It wasn’t the case prior to LO 7.6.2.1. I wanted the other font colour button to remain as it is.
Thank you for the report, Chris. This is likely because of the fix for bug 154270 and its many duplicates (12 currently, so you can see it needed to be fixed). According to bug 154702 comment 2, your use case was unfortunately never intended to work, so you were relying on that "bug" for your workflow... Marking as duplicate, but there might be a case for opening an enhancement request to allow easy access to a couple of colours for such buttons? *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 154702 ***
... and I should add that a workaround (and recommend practice for many) is to use character styles instead of repeatedly applying direct formatting. Hopefully that is something that works for your use case.
Thank you Stephané I now find applying character styles is too much work. I will have to downgrade my version of libreoffice to improve my workflow. Thank you.
(In reply to Chris Aerospace from comment #3) > Thank you Stephané I now find applying character styles is too much work. I > will have to downgrade my version of libreoffice to improve my workflow. > Thank you. Sorry it does not work out for you. Again, it's worth a shot opening a feature request if you think it is justified. Or maybe it is something that should be developed as an extension. Also, just in case you don't know about it: there is a "document colours" palette in the widget, which gives quick access to the colours already used in the document. So only one click away, if that's the active palette.
Hi Stéphane. Thank you for the tip: "document colours" palette widget - and yes that is what I want to do with my workflow - so thank you for the solution ;)