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Default Display selected text as white text with black highlight?

I'm not sure about in Windows XP, but in Vista, if you go into the Advanced
Appearance settings for the operating system and change the Selected Items
coloring, it does change how selected text is displayed in Word 2007. I
don't have the patience to experiment a lot, but I did manage just now to
changed the selection background from blue to gray, by futzing with Color 1
(Color 2 isn't available). YMMV.

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"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
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On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:06:00 -0700, David Rathert David
wrote:

In Office 2007, selected text is displayed as black text with a light blue
highlighter effect as the default. Is there a way to change this
preference
so that selected text displays as white text with a black highlighter
effect,
as in previous versions of Word?


Sorry, David, you're sadly mistaken. The blue selection highlight is
neither a default nor a preference. It's a hard-coded
like-it-or-lump-it. Many of us don't like it. You ought to rephrase
your post as a "suggestion to Microsoft" that may be considered for
the next version.

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