Hi Harry, You didn't mention your Jaws and Word versions. Anyway, if you have Word 2000, you can try the following steps and see if they work: Go to Edit menu and arrow down to Select All. Can do the same with Control plus a. Your text will be highlighted. Go to format menu with alt o, Arrow down to Background, Right arrow to open, Down arrow once to select black color, Enter, Return to format menu with alt o, Press f for fonts, Tab until you rich Font color, Arrow down to bottom of list, Arrow right to far end, the white color, Enter to select, Tab to Ok button, Enter to close Font box, Back to your document, Press Down arrow to cancel highlighting. That's all. Good luck. Adam ----- Original Message ----- From: "harry bates" <hdbates@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "jfw" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 8:10 PM Subject: changing colors in a text file? First of all can this be done? If so, how? I want to change the colors in a word file with the background presently being white and the letters or foreground being black. How can I reverse these color fields just using jaws and a MS Word document? I want the background to be black and the letters to be white. -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx