How do I change hyperlink colours in LibreOffice Impress?

Question

I have a lot of Powerpoint slides that I converted to LibreOffice Impress. The resulting hyperlinks are very faded, very hard to see. I can't seem to find any way to change the colour of hyperlinks as a whole.

Any colour change I do make on an individual url link does not hold when converted back to .ppt which is sometimes necessary.

I have tried the tools=options=libreoffice=appearance route but it only seems to affect the very first hyperlink in the slide set

score 13 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 08 '13 at 15:55

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Styles and Formatting window

https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Editing_Hyperlinks

Change the attribute of all hyperlinks

Open the Styles and Formatting window.

Click the Character Styles icon.

Right-click the "Internet Link" or "Visited Internet Link" character style, and choose Modify.

In the dialog, select the new attributes, and click OK.

Notes

Character Styles icon = button on top of the styles and formatting window
Changes should be made to "Hyperlink" too (if you used or converted from a Microsoft Office Word document).
In order to make changes to a text, select the text you want to change and double-click (left-click) on a character style (e.g. "Hyperlink").

answered Oct 08 '13 at 15:55

Savvas Radevic

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@AttilaLendvai libreoffice draw is a drawing program, it doesn't have to do with writing, therefore I think that character styles doesn't exist for draw. Also, you could try the new 4.1.x versions. If you use ubuntu 12.04 you can try using this ppa: https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/libreoffice-4-1 – Savvas Radevic Nov 07 '13 at 23:41
it's a drawing program, but it has textboxes, which i would expect to behave the same as writing text in Writer. but it's not an urgent issue for me, so i'll just wait an check the next time i need it... – Attila Lendvai Nov 27 '13 at 08:14
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same goes for impress, which the original question is about. There seems to be no "Character Styles" interface in recent versions of LibreOffice (4 or 5). – amenthes Nov 01 '15 at 10:28
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Impress [does not yet have Character styles](https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40871), so this answer is literally incorrect. – einpoklum Jun 16 '21 at 10:32
apologies, I'm not sure if this was valid at the time. I must've been thinking of ms office word/libreoffice writer. you are definitely right though, nowadays it's not applicable. I'd remove it, but seems just people upped this, so I guess it does provide an answer even for the wrong question – Savvas Radevic Jun 17 '21 at 11:47

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered May 28 '14 at 02:44

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There are two places which control the internet or index link color -- see image:

Tools > Options > APPEARANCE > Unvisited Links, Visited Links
Format > Styles and Formatting > Character Styles ("a in box" icon) > Index Link, Internet Link

My document is using Index Links which were blue and which I wanted to be black. I changed the Index Link character style to be Black but only some of them changed. Then I found the Appearance controls under Tools>Options and by turning the Links colors off it worked.

http://nsol.altervista.org/alterpages/loofficechangelinkcolor.png#gallery

answered May 28 '14 at 02:44

Nissim Nanach

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Completely outdated answer. – ThePhi Jul 22 '18 at 17:35
The top voted answer did nothing for me, but going through tools > options, fixed it – DhatGuy May 31 '20 at 20:13
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It's now under Tools > Options > Application Colors – Brian Wiley Dec 06 '20 at 06:24
outdated answer look below my answer – marcdahan Apr 06 '21 at 20:23

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered May 15 '17 at 15:25

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Tools > Options > Application Colors

Then scroll down to "Unvisited links" and "Visited links"

answered May 15 '17 at 15:25

Eddy

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This newer answer was correct for LibreOffice 6.0. Note that this setting will change only the color of new hyperlinks. – Horror Vacui Jun 09 '20 at 09:45
This is the correct answer for newer versions of libreoffice (7.0.4.2) – sberder Apr 19 '22 at 07:01

score 4 · Answer 4 · edited Feb 07 '13 at 03:54

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Go to Tools, then choose Options. From there, a window should pop up and one of the selections is Appearance under the LibreOffice tab. A checkbox displaying the colours for a visited or unvisited link can be changed. Good luck!

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answered Feb 07 '13 at 02:41

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 06 '21 at 20:44

There are two places which control hyperlink colors in LibreOffice

to format all your hyperlinks on the whole document

Tools > Options... > Application Colors > Visited Links ...and set the color Tools > Options... > Application Colors > Unvisited Links ...and set the color

to format a particular hyperlink on your document

Format > Character... > Hyperlink (in the Tab) > Character Styles (in the box) then set the color by choosing the "source text" for example then personalize the hyperlink's style

How do I change hyperlink colours in LibreOffice Impress?

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Styles and Formatting window

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