A split font color button for writer with the two most recent colors?

[MonkeyNoodle]

When proofing text its quite handy using 2 colors to denote good or bad areas of text. It would be handy if the font color button was split and showed the two most recent colors instead of just the single most recent. Right now I use both the text color and the background “highlight” color to do this. But I find myself using a separate highlight color for other areas of text that need attention but are not necessarily “good or bad”.

Yeah it only saves an extra click but its just annoying having to open that drop down menu every time while proofing text.

With that being said a split “character highlight” button that works the same way would also speed up the proofing process.

I hope this is the right place for submitting ideas. Thanks.

[EarnestAl]

Normally when proofing text you would use track changes.

If you have other requirements then create two Character styles with the desired colours and apply them by double clicking the style in the sidebar or assign keyboard shortcuts.

[MonkeyNoodle]

I hadn’t thought about using styles. Thank you. I still think a split font color button would be handy though.

[EarnestAl]

@MonkeyNoodle

I hadn’t thought about using styles

To understand the power of styles read at least the introduction of Designing with LibreOffice linked from English documentation II | LibreOffice Documentation - LibreOffice User Guides

There is a chapter on styles in the Writer Guide, download from English documentation | LibreOffice Documentation - LibreOffice User Guides

@MonkeyNoodle

I still think a split font color button would be handy though.

Once you have created your styles you can add them to a menu or make icons of them.

[MonkeyNoodle]

I read through the style sections in the guides you linked but couldn’t find anything about making icons of the styles, could you please share how that’s accomplished? Thank you for the help thus far.

[fpy]

@MonkeyNoodle

icons

see Adding Buttons to Toolbars
and Recording a Macro

and plenty of tutorials on the subject.

[EarnestAl]

If you are OK with words rather than pictures as icons it is straightforward. Click Tools > Customise, in the dialogue select the Toolbars tab. Your target is the Formatting toolbar, you will need to scroll down to styles in Category pane and choose Character styles. Select the character style, select which icon you are going to place the new on below and the click the right-facing arrow.

It is a similar process for menus and keyboard but there is a handy Help button if you get stuck

[Edit]
If you are going down this route then you will need to make sure that that you “Good” and “Bad” character styles are available to all documents by creating a default template or by creating the styles on a per document basis