Remove gray color of non-breaking spaces in Writer

[cipricus]

These are gray spaces that appear when I write in French. There, a such non-breaking space is required between a word and certain punctuation marks like the colon and guillemets:

These spaces are automatically introduced even if Space key is not used, and are colored in gray even if the Space key is used.

The solution that I have seen mentioned on this site of replacing those non-breaking characters with normal spaces seems awkward. Isn’t there a setting for just not coloring at all those spaces in the first place?

[rautamiekka]

Does the gray show up when printed ? I confirm LO 5.2.2.2 shows the gray, but haven’t tried printing.

[cipricus]

@rautamiekka - me neither but I don’t think so.

[PYS]

Hi

You can disable with View▸Field Shadings or you can do Tools▸Options▸LibreOffice▸Application Color▸Text Document▸Field shadings (untick, choose a color…).

Regards

[dmorris67]

Thank you!

[srialdythia]

thanks bro