Bug 147901

Summary:	two problematic sentences in "Font Color" section in "Formatting Bar" help page
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	sdc.blanco
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	ASSIGNED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	olivier.hallot
Priority:	medium
Version:	Inherited From OOo
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description sdc.blanco 2022-03-10 11:13:08 UTC

https://help.libreoffice.org/7.4/en-US/text/swriter/main0202.html

In section "Font Color" there is:

1. You can also click here, and then drag a selection to change the text color. 

2. Click the arrow next to the icon to open the Font color toolbar. 


Sentence 1 (from 2004) seems to suggest that one can click the Font Color icon, and the drag a selection to change the font color.  But this does not work.

Sentence 2 (also from 2004) suggests that a Font color toolbar will be opened, but there is no Font Color toolbar.  Maybe it should say "Color Palette"?  And maybe there should be one more sentence about selecting a color in the palette (because there is not really a help page about using the Color Palette).

Comment 1 John 2024-03-10 21:51:21 UTC

The Font Color section contains these two sentences:

Click to apply the current font color to the selected characters. You can also click here, and then drag a selection to change the text color.

These two sentences do not clearly explain the process for using the font color feature. The first sentence makes it seem as though there is a single click process. The second may cause a user to believe that they can drag a color onto the button to change the font color.

Comment 2 fpy 2024-03-15 11:28:03 UTC

not sure either why "Background Color" is talking about paragraphs :)

Comment 3 fpy 2024-03-20 08:43:02 UTC

(In reply to sdc.blanco from comment #0)
> https://help.libreoffice.org/7.4/en-US/text/swriter/main0202.html
>...
> Sentence 1 (from 2004) seems to suggest that one can click the Font Color
> icon, and the drag a selection to change the font color.  But this does not work.

it does actually work !
the proper explanation being here :
https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/ro/text/shared/guide/text_color.html


>...
> Sentence 2 (also from 2004) suggests that a Font color toolbar will be
> opened, but there is no Font Color toolbar.  

the terminology in use is actually to call it "toolbar"

https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/ro/text/shared/00/00000001.html#toolbars

in our case, it's a bit misleading since the "palette" toolbar does not have its  own menu entry in View - Toolbars.