LibreOffice should better improve the intuitive usability of the most used basic functions than adding more and more enhancements. LibreOffice is a good program, but it's peculiarities sometimes make me crazy and let me think of choosing another office program. 1. I want to disable the ugly grey field-shading of hyperlinks in CALC. The special color of the text foreground (visited and unvisited links) would to be enough to mark hyperlinks (like in in other spreadsheet programs). If I un-check ("ON") in the check box at "Tools > Options > Appearence > Textdocument > Field Shadings" there is no change (BUG ?). I do not want to choose a different color in the color setting box, I want always the same color as the background of the cells (transparent background). See also http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=32519, http://de.openoffice.info/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8983 (german) 2. Why there is no quick function to delete a hyperlink (e.g. in right-click context-menu). Instead you have to use "Format > Clear Direct Formating". I think, nobody would intuitely get access to this solution, which does not only delete the hyperlink but all formating (colors) of the cell.
Wolfgang: Could you please attach an example document displaying the problem?
Created attachment 81951 [details] example for hyperlink with grey background Wilhelm, here it is. I think, if I uncheck Custom Colors, Box "On", Field shadings, there should be NO grey or other color background for the link. If this is no bug, how can I get rid of the field shading (color) in CALC. This is a annoyance that many users have. To set the color of the field shading white is NO solution, if the cell has another background than white.
This appears to be a bit of an awkward bug. It is evidently a very old problem inherited from the original OOo code. Related AOO bug is https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=37988 which references v1.1.3. As such I am setting the status to NEW as I feel this is a confirmed issue, it is merely the solution that is unconfirmed. I believe that the way in which hyperlinks are handled in Calc, needs to be made consistent with how they are handled in Writer i.e., via styles-based formatting. This would require implementing character styles in Calc. By way of comparison, a hyperlink in Writer is controlled by the character styles Internet Link and Visited Internet Link. Unchecking the option in question (or using CTRL+F8) in Writer does remove the grey highlighting of, for example, a cross-reference field, but does not affect the appearance of a hyperlink. It is probably also worth noting that the option is listed beneath the Text Document, rather than Spreadsheet, section. The term "field" in particular seems to cover a broad range of possibilities with regard to shading. For example, certain Unicode characters like Zero Width Space (U+200b) and No Break Space (U+00a0) are currently included. These Appearance options probably require a reworking.
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Any chance of seeing this solved in the near future?
I have checked in Apache OpenOffice Calc 4.1.1 and they have solved this bug. Are you going to sove it in LibreOffice Calc?
Workaround: use the function HYPERLINK() instead of automatic recognition of hyperlinks. Best regards. JBF
This could work if I whould create the document. But in my case, I receive documents already created by others using Microsoft Excel Office. These excel documents have hundreds of links and I get updated documents every week. I thank you for geting envolved in this issue!
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Nothing changed in LO 5.1.4.0.0+ and master, both build at home under Ubuntu 16.04 x86-64. Set as enhancement because this field shading is there by design. Set version to inherited from OOo because it was already the case in OOo and LO did not change that. Best regards. JBF
Just want to confirm that I also have this problem. Calc version 5.1.3.2 on Windows 10. Very annoying.
I confirm for point 2 of wolfgang-becker@online.de. I was to open a bug but by looking in Bugzilla with "Calc" "Hyperlink", I came across this bug. And I found the solution exposed long version by wolfgang-becker@online.de!
Again, want to confirm this. Field shading is impossible to remove. I cannot believe it doesn't bother more people. Deleting a link from context menu would be very handy. Tried on mac and ubuntu, version 6.0
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@Heiko, I thought you could be interested in this issue...
(In reply to Xisco Faulí from comment #15) > @Heiko, I thought you could be interested in this issue... Will have a look
Eike Rathke committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=1b8886ad7744fc48e09bb7379d8ad8e75bb3084d Resolves: tdf#66545 display URL fields non-shaded in Calc It will be available in 6.2.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Thank you, Eike, for your patch to close this old bug! Now I see complains coming that the shading isn't an option to activate/deactivate.
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Solved. Ferified on: Version: 6.2.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: 3846561f79cf9065abd9ca83c9fbfbe7e52e28e2 CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: GL; VCL: gtk3; TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@86-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2018-10-21_02:45:54 Locale: en-US (ro_RO.UTF-8); Calc: threaded
OMG. Thank you so much for FINALLY getting rid of this decade old aggravating bug! These kind of details are the reason some people don't fully switch to LibreOffice. I've been reluctant to switch until this was fixed and forgot to re-check this thread last year. I'll update to 6.3.3 now! Thanks Eike Rathke!
Completely agree with the original poster of this thread. While I appreciate free open source software, whats the point of having it, if it takes forever to figure out how to use it, especial the basics just for the simple reason of no focus on the intuitive user ability aspect of the program. I just created my first calc spreadsheet. I did the exact same spreadsheet as a test in google sheets. It took under an hour. In calc it took me 4 days of about 7 hours each day. While there is always a learning curve when learning new programs, that is ridiculous. Especially since i am rather tech savvy. Can you imagine for someone who inst? The problem is not resolved as well. Perhaps in previous versions it was. I am using the latest version of calc as of the day of this posting. And at best, I could figure out how to format the shading for the entire document. What about for each cell? And what about an invisible feature? And what abut making it so that it doesn't take someone to go to college just to figure out how to do that? This one took me about 2 hours alone.
(In reply to nguru from comment #22) > While there is always a learning curve... I cannot see what the relevance in respect to shading of URLs, which was removed as requested. If you have specific ideas please file another enhancement request. In case of questions we have ask.libreoffice.org to get help from the community.