Bug 88748

Summary:	Font color shortcut not working writer
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	hk80s <hsinghal1>
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	barta
Version:	4.2.8.2 release
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Windows (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description hk80s 2015-01-23 13:03:16 UTC

I tried to assign the keyboard shortcut to change the font color, but results were not as expected

Steps to reproduce:
1. Create a new Writer document
2. Go to Tools > Customize... > Keyboard
3. Select Format from the Category list and Blue (and red) from the Function list
4. Apply it to the keyboard combination of your choice (I chose Alt+B and Alt+R respectively)
5. Click OK
6. Type anything in the Writer document
7. Select some text
8. Press the keyboard combination from 4 above

Actual results:
The text color remains unchanged.

Expected results: 
The text color should become Blue/Red depending on key combination pressed as if chosen from color pallet.

Comment 1 tommy27 2015-01-24 09:26:25 UTC

you have misunderstood the function of those "red", "green" and "blue" items in the format categories.

those are not supposed to change the color of the font but they refer to RGB (red, green, blue) setting of image or graphic in documents.

try loading an .odt with a picture. click on that picture and you will see that the sidebar graphic menu will pop up showing the red, green and blue % menus.

if you aim to assign a custom shortcut to a specific color font you have to use the macro recorder.

enable it from "Tools/Options/LibreOffice/Advanced" and tick "enable macro recording"

then click "Tools/Macros/Record macro" and save your macro.
you just have to select a pre-existing text, then click on the font color dropdown selector to change the color of the font, when you have don stop recording and save the macro with a custom name (i.e. FontRed)

to assign it to a shortcut just open the customize keyboard menu you already know and select the LibreOffice macro from the category list, then locate your macro (it should be under "user") and assign it.

do the same thing for all the color you want.
you may also create custom macros with any specific font setting (i.e. blue font + bold + underlined) 

I hope these infos will help you.
so I set status to RESOLVED NOTABUG

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