| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
seanspotatobusiness
OOo Enthusiast
Joined: 31 Oct 2005
Posts: 173
|
 Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 11:48 am Post subject: Unsatisfied with available highlighting colours [SOLVED] |
 |
|
If I click on the highlighting button, I can see a disorganized shamble of gaudy colours with which to afflict the text in my Writer documents. I notice there are at least some white spaces available in the bottom row, along the right. I presume these are to allow me to customise my pallet? If so, how do I do this? Perhaps there are already tastefully compiled pallets on the Internet, waiting to be installed?
_________________
WinXP; OOo 2.4.0
MSI 7100 m'board, AMD 64 3200+, 2 GB RAM (1999 vintage)
Last edited by seanspotatobusiness on Sat Oct 18, 2008 11:52 am; edited 1 time in total |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
keme
Super User
Joined: 30 Aug 2004
Posts: 2027
Location: Egersund, Norway
|
| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 12:31 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Select menu item Tools - Options..., then expand branch OpenOffice.org and select Colors. Now you can select a colour close to the one you want, and modify the RGB values (Red/Green/Blue components of the colour). When satisfied, click the Modify button to substitute the chosen colour on the palette, or click Add to insert it into one of the free spaces. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
seanspotatobusiness
OOo Enthusiast
Joined: 31 Oct 2005
Posts: 173
|
| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 1:05 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Thank you kindly! I now have a delightful array of pastels with which to ornament my prose!
_________________
WinXP; OOo 2.4.0
MSI 7100 m'board, AMD 64 3200+, 2 GB RAM (1999 vintage)
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
seanspotatobusiness
OOo Enthusiast
Joined: 31 Oct 2005
Posts: 173
|
| Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 7:01 am Post subject: |
|
|
Having re-installed Windows, I no longer have my beautiful selection of colours. I still have the old installation intact, so I can go foraging for configuration files. My problem is that I can't discern how or where they are stored. Does anyone have any clue?
_________________
WinXP; OOo 2.4.0
MSI 7100 m'board, AMD 64 3200+, 2 GB RAM (1999 vintage)
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
David
Super User
Joined: 24 Oct 2003
Posts: 5671
Location: Canada
|
| Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 7:49 am Post subject: |
|
|
| seanspotatobusiness wrote: | | Having re-installed Windows, I no longer have my beautiful selection of colours. I still have the old installation intact, so I can go foraging for configuration files. My problem is that I can't discern how or where they are stored. Does anyone have any clue? |
Clueless, but guessing.... some information my have been in the registry ...in the Windows folder. It might be useful to reinstall OpenOffice, after uninstalling it first, to assure that registry information is as needed.
David. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Bug
OOo Advocate
Joined: 29 Oct 2005
Posts: 336
|
| Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 11:41 am Post subject: |
|
|
| seanspotatobusiness wrote: | | Does anyone have any clue? |
The file you want appears to be:
..\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 2.0\presets\config\standard.soc
(The OpenOffice.org 2.0 folder might have a different name for you, but you get the picture.)
or for Linux:
/usr/lib/openoffice/presets/config/standard.soc |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
seanspotatobusiness
OOo Enthusiast
Joined: 31 Oct 2005
Posts: 173
|
| Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 11:52 am Post subject: |
|
|
I haven't checked your suggestion but did find it to be in C:\Documents and Settings\Sean\Application Data\OpenOffice.org2\user\config (OOo 2.41)
_________________
WinXP; OOo 2.4.0
MSI 7100 m'board, AMD 64 3200+, 2 GB RAM (1999 vintage)
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Bug
OOo Advocate
Joined: 29 Oct 2005
Posts: 336
|
| Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 12:07 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| You are looking at a different file, particular to your username. The file you found might be the file where you set up the colors, and they would be available to you but not to other login names. The file I pointed out is a file that will affect all users, not just you, but I'm not sure it pertains to the palette for highlighting in Writer. I say this because it appears to contain more colors than that palette does. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
