I just upgraded to LO version 6.3.4 (latest at the time of writing): at first I thought that the vile yellow-gold had been eliminated. This turns out not to be so. It appears that, as before, the choice of colour is calculated on the basis of the user name.
You can use a simple, partial workaround, but itâs not all that good because ALL the default colours of âby Authorâ are horribly pale, although the one most commonly chosen, a vile yellow-gold, is by far the one most calculated to lead to eye strain.
What you do, before starting a new document, is change your user name:
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Tools â Options â LibreOffice â
User Data: change the entry for
âFirst/last name/initialsâ to
something like âdummyâ,
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click OK, close Writer, open again.
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Then go Edit â Track changes â Record.
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Write some text: it is often in yellow-gold. (Sometimes not, though: my experiments seem to indicate that the choice of colour is actually determined by the user name: fiddle with your user name and you may get a default first colour which is not yellow-gold).
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Then go back to the User Data and change back to your own user name. When you write something else
it will be in a colour other than yellow-gold, whenever you do any editing in this file.
Unfortunately, as I say, the other colours are not much better: light green, light blue.
Please add your voice to the âbug/enhancement requestâ dating from 2013 to be found here: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65231 - just say itâs causing your annoyance or eye-strain or whateverâŚ