Highlighting a selected text for presentations is as basic and useful as copying/pasting. Yet, it takes six steps (mouse clicks) to highlight a selected text in LO Draw and Impress. (FORMAT; CHARACTER; HIGHLIGHT; COLOR; COLOR; OK). The highlighting feature already exists in Writer, so why leave it out in all the other apps, especially the ones used for presentations, like Draw or Impress? Is there some technical reason why it can not be made into a one-step process?
Tamas, you can easily enable the Text formatting toolbar (use View-Toolbars menu for it) or just add any icons/widgets to any toolbar as you need (use Tools-Customize dialog for it). What is your suggestion here? Do you want some tools to be visible by default?
Now that you made me aware that the highlighting tool exists in Draw & Impress under “Text Formatting,” my recommendation would be that it be stored under the same name, either “Formatting” as it is in Calc and Writer or “Text formatting” as in Draw and Impress, but not both. I would have never thought of looking for it under “Text formatting” but I did search for it under Tools and Draw Functions either of which would make more sense. Anyway, thanks for pointing out the location.
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Another workflow is using the sidebar. When text is focused you get most attributes one click away. The alternative UI View > User Interface... > Tabbed has the command under the Text tab. And if you prefer using toolbars you use Tools > Customize... to have "Character Highlighting Color" anywhere you like. Plenty of options to achieve it => WF. (In reply to Tamas from comment #2) > stored under the same name, either “Formatting” as it is in Calc and Writer... But you primarily format objects in Draw, don't you?
Thank you Heiko. Yes, the best solution is customizing your toolbars as you suggested. I guess, what I’m suggesting is that, since Highlighting is a frequently used function, it should be part of any one of the default toolbars in Draw and Impress, just as it is in Writer (by default). Experienced users can customize their desktop anyway they please, but why make new users suffer?