Have a look at Option 2 in
http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_offi...-edition1.aspx.
It shows how to display green text on a black background; just replace
"black" with "blue" and "green" with "white" in the instructions.
It won't completely replace the original white-on-blue setting, but it will
let you compose text in that view.
As for "why", I don't know. I have my suspicions, but I'm not about to write
them down.
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Regards,
Jay Freedman
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Firefly88 wrote:
Well, here we are, a year-and-a-half later, and combing through the
comments on this issue I still can't find an answer to the sane
request below, much less to the question of why the hell they did
this! Has there been any new and helpful information about this
problem?
"Flash2007" wrote:
Bob ... are you serious?! WHY did Microsoft, in their infinite
wisdom, eliminate such a useful option? They're CRAZY!
You mentioned that "the 'paper' color can be changed by modifying the
Windows display appearance settings." But I need more detailed
instructions than that. I want just MS Word to have blue background
and white text, not my other programs such as Outlook, etc. So,
could you please send step-by-step "click on this, then that"
instructions to set Word up so that my DEFAULT page comes up every
time with white text on the blue background that we all came to know
and love in earlier Word versions? PLEASE?? --
Flash2007
"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:
For Word 2007 the DOS WordPerfect v5.0 compatability setting of
White text on blue background has been removed by Microsoft. The
'paper' color can be changed by modifying the Windows display
appearance settings.
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"TPoFE" wrote in message
...
My boss is using the new Word 2007 Beta and wants to know if there
is a way
to set it up to use Blue Background and White Text for the basic
typing as
oppossed to the defult White Background / Black text.
--
Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP
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