Application colors, field shadings, uncheck - but color still there?

[RobNik]

I found that I can type control + shift + hyphen to insert a non-breaking hyphen. This is useful to me in certain situations, but it then highlights the hyphen with gray background, which I don’t want to see in my document. It may not print (I don’t know) but my docs are for viewing on-screen, and I want the gray highlight gone. So I went to Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Application Colors and found that the “Field Shadings” color was controlling the color around the hyphen. I unchecked the box, but the color is still there. Should unchecking the box make it go away? I can make it go away by setting the color to white, same as my document background, but that that seems non-ideal. What if the text is in a paragraph with a different background color?

Should unchecking that box cause the highlight color to go away in the document?

[EarnestAl]

If you are sharing on screen for editing then maybe your fellow contributors would also like to see there is a non-breaking hyphen. If it is for read only, your best bet would be to export to pdf as even people without an office suite can read it.

The Application Colours pane is headed User interface elements; they don’t affect people on other computers/other installations. If you change it to white on your installation then others will still see grey.
Tested with 7.6.3.2 & 7.5.8.2

[RobNik]

What is the checkbox doing, do you know? I mean the one next to “Field shadings” in that Application Colors pane. I thought if I unchecked it, it would stop coloring that element. It seems to do nothing.

It’s not read only; these are my documents that I use for taking notes, organizing ideas, documenting software projects. I guess I’m a bit of an oddball, but want to format them to look “pretty”, how I like, because it helps me think when editing and reading the document.

[EarnestAl]

You can toggle visibility of field shadings in View - Field shadings which might be the easiest and quickest way to switch visibility on your own computer.

[LeroyG]

@RobNik

I unchecked the box, but the color is still there

There seems to be a bug there, but I don’t found a bug report.

• Menu View - Field Shadings (Ctrl+F8) enables/disables field shadings for all documents.
• Menu Tools - Options - LibreOffice - Application Colors - Field Shadings also enables/disables field shadings for all documents, but only toggles menu View - Field Shadings in the actual document. This is inconsistent.