Bug 168161 - LibreOffice Calc - cell text color keeps changing when cell fill color is changed
Summary: LibreOffice Calc - cell text color keeps changing when cell fill color is cha...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
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24.8.4.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Windows (All)
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Reported: 2025-08-28 16:41 UTC by eadamic
Modified: 2026-01-17 14:45 UTC (History)
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Description eadamic 2025-08-28 16:41:49 UTC
Description:
Default text color is set to black (not automatic) but keeps changing to white when the cell fill color is changed to grey. Tools\options\libreOffice\applicationColors\fontColor is set to BLACK. I do not care for the auto formatting. Where is the option to disable this?

Steps to Reproduce:
1.type text in cell with font color set to black
2.change cell color to any dark color
3.text changes from black to white

Actual Results:
text is automatically formatted to white

Expected Results:
text should remain black


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes

Additional Info:
[Information automatically included from LibreOffice]
Locale: en-US
Module: SpreadsheetDocument
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OS: Windows (All)
OS is 64bit: no
Comment 1 BogdanB 2025-08-28 18:58:36 UTC
I do not reproduce. If the font color is not automatic, but black, it remains black, no matter what...

Version: 25.8.0.4 (X86_64)
Build ID: 48f00303701489684e67c38c28aff00cd5929e67
CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 6.8; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: ro-RO (ro_RO.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 2 Takenori Yasuda 2025-08-29 09:18:19 UTC
Reproduced.
Version: 25.8.2.0.0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: bc798e31a274a920515a01954f2e09289632659e
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26100); UI render: default; VCL: win
Locale: ja-JP (ja_JP); UI: ja-JP
Calc: threaded

Settings:
- Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Appearance > Customizations > Font color: Black
- Styles > Manage Styles > Default > Edit Style > Font Effects > Font Color > Font color: Automatic
- Format Cells > Font Effects > Font Color > Font color: Automatic
- Character > Font Effects > Font Color > Font color: Automatic

Note:
If set in the Font Effects dialog, the font color will be preserved.

Additional info:
- This occurs even when the text color is set to a color other than black (e.g., yellow).
- I confirmed that the font color changes to the set color only when the F2 key is pressed.
- It appears to me that it's behaving the same way as when the above four settings are set to "Automatic".
Comment 3 Buovjaga 2026-01-17 14:45:06 UTC
(In reply to Takenori Yasuda from comment #2)
> Settings:
> - Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Appearance > Customizations > Font color:
> Black
> - Styles > Manage Styles > Default > Edit Style > Font Effects > Font Color
> > Font color: Automatic
> - Format Cells > Font Effects > Font Color > Font color: Automatic
> - Character > Font Effects > Font Color > Font color: Automatic

If you use Automatic font colour, there is no bug, but this is the intended effect. So please, eadamic, explicitly set the font colour to something, if you don't want it to change.

> Additional info:
> - This occurs even when the text color is set to a color other than black
> (e.g., yellow).

No, it doesn't, when you edit the style > Font Effects > Font Color.