Re: Changing Colors in Word with JFW?
- From: "AB7HW Dick Lee Chrisman" <ab7hw@xxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:05:24 -0700
Thanks Steve
This is good information for my Friend and I will pass it on and see how it
works!
Thanks again.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Griffiths, Steve" <Steve.Griffiths@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 10:46 AM
Subject: RE: Changing Colors in Word with JFW?
> Dick,
>
> If your friend has a Windows computer, there are two ways they can
> change it so that you don't have to worry about the colours of your
> documents; when your friend opens a document you send it will be in the
> colours that are appropriate for them. This might be useful for them
> outside the specific task of reading a document that you are going to
> send.
>
> First one is in Word itself. If they open the Tools menu and choose
> Options, press Control + Tab to move to the General page and then press
> Tab until they reach an option called "Blue background, White text".
> Press SpaceBar to check it and then press Enter to close the dialogue.
> This will change the colours of Word documents but won't make any
> difference to the menus, dialogues, or anything outside Word such as
> their email programme.
>
> A more far-reaching change can be accomplished by opening the StartMenu
> and choosing Settings. This will open a submenu and the first item in
> this should be Control Panel. Press Enter on Control Panel to open a
> list. Use DownArrow until focus is on Display, then press Enter. A
> dialogue box will open and the number of pages to it will depend on the
> version of Windows. One of them will be Appearance. On this page press
> Tab to get to a list of schemes, and within this choose High Contrast
> Black. Press Enter to bring the scheme into effect. This will change
> the screen colours of Windows and most Micrsoft Office application
> windows, dialogues, menus and documents. Notably Internet Explorer will
> not change unless another setting inside that is altered, but that's
> another story.
>
> One last point about both of these changes. The default colour for Word
> is not black, although that is how it looks to most users who have a
> white background, but Auto. When set to Auto, the colour of text is
> determined by Word's background colour; if this is white then the text
> will appear as black, but if the background is black then the text will
> show up as white text (it prints out as black text in all cases). So
> long as the documents your friend receives are set to Auto they should
> have no problem with the colours, or with swapping documents between
> themselves and others who use different screen colours. If they get a
> document that uses different colours (or which doesn't look like it has
> any text at all in it) it's useful to be able to know how to change the
> font colour to Auto. To do this, use Control + A to select the
> document, then open the Format menu and choose Font. Tab to Font Colour
> and change it to Auto - if they use the keyboard, they can do this by
> pressing DownArrow to open a palette of colours, then press Home to move
> to the item at the top of the palette, press Enter to select this item,
> then Tab around to the OK button and press it.
>
> Apologies if this is all redundant because you just want to know how to
> change the colours of a Word document!
>
> Steve
>
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