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Karen Red Karen Red is offline
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Hi, new here, but I've been dealing with this problem for YEARS, and I imay/i have figured out a solution...on my older Word 2004 (Mac) anyway. I also sincerely apologize if either someone already answered this and/or this doesn't work. Like I said, total newbie.

I didn't follow any of your instructions, though I should have (I'm pretty lazy), but I suddenly made a connection between this thread and another on the same topic: Shading!

Try this: select the "black" text and change the shading to "none" in the format pane. Mine was set - oddly - to "white," which I guess convinced my Word that something was different, though otherwise invisible. Completely solved my problem.

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Originally Posted by Suzanne S. Barnhill View Post
But Control Panel is still on the main Start menu in all versions (at least
it is in Windows 7).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
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For what it's worth, you can display Control Panel via Start | Run.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Suzanne S. Barnhill"
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I admire and second your caution, although the path to Control Panel in
recent versions of Windows may be even more iffy than right-clicking the
desktop! I have Windows 7 on my new laptop but haven't used it enough to
be completely sure of anything, and I have used Vista only a tiny bit, so
I'm really out of my depth there.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
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Good point. I actually right-click the desktop myself, but since I
wasn't sure about recent Windows versions I thought suggesting Control
Panel would be safer.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Suzanne S. Barnhill"
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An easy way to get to Control Panel | Display (any version of Windows,
I think), is to right-click on the desktop and choose Properties.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
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This is a Windows setting which you can change in Control Panel. I
don't know the exact location for the newer Windows versions, but in
Windows XP, double-click Display (in Control Panel). On the Appearance
tab, click Advanced. In the list box, choose "Selected Items" and
specify the desired color. When you are done, click OK twice.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"wlmehciz"
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My highlight color has changed to black when I highlight to copy. I
would
like to change the color back to light blue.