Changing text color, program bug or ignorance of my side?

LayOut
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So i gave LO another try, butt already found something buggy, or i am doing it wrong?

Tried to change the color of part of a text, but somehow it only accepts one number at a time?
When i try to input the number 245 to the red spectrum, it only accepts the 2 and adds the 45 to the selcrted text? Same goes for the 185 green spectrum and 175 for the blue spectrum, so in stead of typing 3 numbers, one has to type each number seperately?

Hopefully the animation below better illustrates what I mean to say:
LO change color bug

Is this a bug in the program or is it a fault in my workflow or something different? :thinking:

PS this was in LO22 …

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That looks like a focus bug where the values entered change back to the drawing space.

I don’t see that on Mac…

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This is what I get in LO2025.
color

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Can you share the file so we can try it, I can’t replicate it on windows or Mac as well.

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Maybe reply to @AnnoNiem

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Thanks for testing.
Could it be since i try to change the size and color of just a part (“1.”) of a full sentence (“1. Bezonningsdiagrammen”)?
Would you be so kind to test that also?

Or should i split this sentence in two parts, one part per size/color/etc? :thinking:

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I’m not on windows - but what happens if you click into the text box and only color the 4?

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It works for me to select just the number and change the RGB value but it appears that the text in a single text box cannot have multiple colors so …

At least one color per text box seems to be the fix. You can have different text sizes in a single text box however.

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Weird, so this should not be possible? :wink:

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All in one textline: different fonts, different sizes, different colors, underline, italic, normal, bold

:innocent:

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Weird indeed. I couldn’t make that work on my machine.

Probably still best and easier to manage with separate text boxes.

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Screenshot 2025-06-30 at 16.45.48
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Mac, LO 2025

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I just began, so this ‘soon to be my first lo template’ is a work in progress :wink:

Hoppa, 10,5 MB work in progress layout file with 5 pages only?
(my full word template is a stunning 122Kb with 20 pages :nerd_face: )
Shared with Wetransfer, available untill 3 july 2025: Unique Download Link | WeTransfer

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While we are at it, how about a FR for a right-click menu option to reset all character formatting changes applied to a text box. My pet peeve not only in LayOut but some other applications as well.

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I had a dream last night … i used the wrong version of LO yesterday :sleeping_face:

This morning i tried to use LO2025, and so far no issues editting fonts there :partying_face:
LO25 editting text works ok
The issue was/is with LO22, which i used due to the fact i still preffer/forced using Sketchup22.

Also, after ‘transforming’ the LO22 file to LO2025, and adding 15 pages, LO2025 reduced the size to almost 2MB! :thinking:

So thanks to all who tried to solve this issue!