LibreOffice Impress refuses to change the text color from grey

[jeremiah]

I have a presentation I start on another operating system with libreoffice. I moved the presentation to Debian and tried to change the text color from grey to orange. I use the toolbar tool that has a tool tip that says “Font Color” when you hover over it.

Yet each time I change the text to a given color, any color, it refuses and keeps my text grey.

How can I change the text color?

[jeremiah]

What I’m trying to say is that the Text toolbar button “Font Color” fails to actually work. The text color does not change when the steps from qubit are followed.

[qubit1]

(testing on Ubuntu 12.04.1 with LO 3.5.4.2)

To change the color of text:

• Open LO Impress
• Click “Next”, “Next”, etc… then “Create” to get past the powerful Wizard in your path.
• You should be on a blank slide. In the right-hand pane, under “Layouts”, choose the template named “Title Slide”
  • If you hover over the template, the words “Title Slide” will appear as a tooltip
• Click where it says “Click to add title”, and add a fun title. I chose “My Awesome Slide”
• Use Ctrl-a or your mouse/trackpad to highlight the title text
• Open the Text toolbar by selecting from the menu: View → Toolbars → Text
• Click the “Font Color” button on the Text toolbar and select a color for your text.
• Tip: You can change the color of just a word or two in the text by selecting just those characters/words you wish to change

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Update: @jeremiah writes:

the Text toolbar button “Font Color” fails to actually work. The text color does not change when the steps from qubit are followed.

Jeremiah – if this is the case, please file a bug about this problem, and provide a list of steps that can reproduce it. Feel free to steal my list above

The QA team will be happy to help you track down this issue!

Please post a link to any bugs you file in a comment below using the format “fdo#123456”.

Thanks!