some comments first, the solution follows after an asterisk (*).
On Sat, 06 Jul 2013 07:28:50 -0000, Pushpak Dagade <guanid...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Assume I have a spreadsheet with a column containing 50 cells of text
data.
Suppose I change the font colour of only half the text in a particular
cell, say, no. 10, to red (so cell no. 10 now has its contents in 2
colours
- red and black). Everything is as expected till now.
here you change the font color of particular characters, i.e. create a new
character style and apply it to those characters.
The problem comes when I try to select all the cells and change their
font
colour to say, yellow. What I expect is all cells, irrespective of their
prior font colours, should have their font colour yellow. However, what I
get is a different result for cell no. 10. Cell no.10 has half its text
(which was originally black by default) in yellow, but the red coloured
contents are still red in colour.
here you change the font color of the entire cells, i.e. create a new cell
style and apply it to the cells. the previously created character style is
still applied on top of the cell style because the latter is more common
an the former is more specific.
cell style may be changed expressly through the 'style and formatting'
panel or may be implied if you just picked it from a drop-down list on the
'formatting' panel. character styles are always implied in calc, which is
not good, as your case shows.
*
the solution to the problem is to clear all formatting of the cells in
question (both cell and character styles) by selecting them and applying
'format/default formatting'. after that you can turn them yellow as you
wish.
if you don't want to clear your well adjusted cell style then you can save
it by selecting a sample cell and clicking 'new style from selection' on
the 'styles and formatting' panel (which is opened by pressing f11 or
clicking 'format/styles and formatting'). after applying default
formatting and deleting all character styling thereby, the newly created
style can be cast back on the cells.
p.s. if there were a possibility to expressly create new character styles
in calc, as it is in writer, then you could perform a simple
search-and-replace operation to switch from the 'red text' character style
to the default one.
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