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Feature Request: Text highlight colour support in presentations #72

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@NSDerred

I appreciate this is an early-stage project, I'm raising this now to register the use case while priorities are being set. Thank you for all this amazing work you're doing.

Summary:
Text highlight colours applied in PowerPoint should be rendered, editable, and preserved in Euro-Office presentations.

Use case:
I am a teacher with 4+ years of existing PowerPoint lesson slides containing text highlights. Migrating from Windows/PowerPoint to Linux and FOSS is a goal of mine, and Euro-Office is my target replacement. Text highlight compatibility is a hard blocker for that migration. It's hugely useful for helping pupils understand marking criteria.

Current behaviour (OnlyOffice):

  • Highlight colours in existing .pptx files are not rendered when opened
  • No highlight colour tool is available in the presentation editor toolbar

Desired behaviour:

  1. Highlight colours in existing .pptx files are rendered correctly on open
  2. A highlight colour picker is available in the presentation text formatting toolbar
  3. Highlights are preserved when saving back to .pptx

PowerPoint reference:
Microsoft PowerPoint supports text highlight colours via the Home ribbon, identical to Word's highlight tool. The same feature already exists in Euro-Office's document editor, parity in the presentation editor would close this gap.

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