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titleformat has no effect!

I have tried to specify the color for my section as shown here, but it has no effect. What am I doing wrong? MWE: \documentclass[10pt,letterpaper]{article} \usepackage{lipsum} \usepackage{multirow} ...
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how to color the header's bottom line or footer's upper line?

The title is self-explanatory. In my document's current state, I get this rendering result after compiling with XeLaTeX : Here's a MWE of which packages and commands I use to obtain my current ...
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1answer
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Titlesec and xcolor not playing nicely?

I am trying to use the titlesec and xcolor packages together (well, actually, the tufte-book class is, but that's another story.) Here is a minimal LaTeX file that illustrates my problem: ...
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1answer
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Offset color block behind section titles

Joseph Wright's CV source contains a snippet of code that produces an offset color block behind section titles using the titlesec package, like so: \documentclass[11pt]{article} ...
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1answer
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How can I set a color for the title rule?

I'm writing a document which uses titlesec, and I'd like to set the title rule to a different color. How can I do that? This is what I currently have, which produces section titles with black ...
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Strange behaviour of titlesec, with colored titlerule

With the following MWE, i get the Section title underlined in black : \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage[explicit]{titlesec} \usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor} \titleformat{\section}% ...
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Giving headlines a background color spanning across the entire typearea

I posted this at stackoverflow and got redirected here. This does indeed look like a better place to ask. I would like to decorate my headlines (section, subsection, etc.) by adding a background ...
7
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1answer
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How to prevent a page break between section title and colored rule?

I use \usepackage[explicit]{titlesec} to customize the design of my sections, subsections... In particular, i have : \titleformat{\section}% {\large\sffamily\bfseries}% {My Section \arabic{section} ...
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Section and subsection colors using titlesec

Im trying to alter the colors on my section, subsection and subsubsection. I do so using the titlesec page: \titleformat*{\section}{\Large\bfseries\sffamily\color{red}} ...