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White letters against a burgendy shaded blocked background?
Another question from a 20 year WP user trying to convert to MSW 2007. I had
a document passed to me that has the important points in the material shaded in a burgendy block with the letters in the background looking white. How can I learn how this was done? No reveal codes or anyother indications of how this was accomplished. Thank you for any help Jerry |
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White letters against a burgendy shaded blocked background?
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 19:47:35 -0400, "JERRY" JERRY@HOME wrote:
Another question from a 20 year WP user trying to convert to MSW 2007. I had a document passed to me that has the important points in the material shaded in a burgendy block with the letters in the background looking white. How can I learn how this was done? No reveal codes or anyother indications of how this was accomplished. Thank you for any help Jerry There are two steps: (1) Set the text's font color to Automatic, if it isn't already. The font color button is on the Home ribbon in the Font group, an A with a colored bar under it. (2) Set the paragraph shading to a dark color. The shading button is on the Home ribbon in the Paragraph group, with a paint-can icon. When the background is dark enough, the font color will automatically switch to white. Among the theme colors, it's mostly only the one at the bottom of each column that's dark enough -- hovering the mouse pointer over a color patch will change the selected text as a preview. Once you find the combination you like, make a quick style for it -- right-click the formatted text, click Styles, and choose "Save selection as a new quick style". -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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White letters against a burgendy shaded blocked background?
Thanks, Jay
I'll give it a try Jerry "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 19:47:35 -0400, "JERRY" JERRY@HOME wrote: Another question from a 20 year WP user trying to convert to MSW 2007. I had a document passed to me that has the important points in the material shaded in a burgendy block with the letters in the background looking white. How can I learn how this was done? No reveal codes or anyother indications of how this was accomplished. Thank you for any help Jerry There are two steps: (1) Set the text's font color to Automatic, if it isn't already. The font color button is on the Home ribbon in the Font group, an A with a colored bar under it. (2) Set the paragraph shading to a dark color. The shading button is on the Home ribbon in the Paragraph group, with a paint-can icon. When the background is dark enough, the font color will automatically switch to white. Among the theme colors, it's mostly only the one at the bottom of each column that's dark enough -- hovering the mouse pointer over a color patch will change the selected text as a preview. Once you find the combination you like, make a quick style for it -- right-click the formatted text, click Styles, and choose "Save selection as a new quick style". -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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White letters against a burgendy shaded blocked background?
Note that I have experienced many printer drivers that are confused by the
Auto colouring for text so that when you try to print the White text on a dark colour, it still prints black and is almost indecipherable. If you get that problem, select the text and change the colour to White rather than Auto. -- Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP "JERRY" JERRY@HOME wrote in message ... Thanks, Jay I'll give it a try Jerry "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 19:47:35 -0400, "JERRY" JERRY@HOME wrote: Another question from a 20 year WP user trying to convert to MSW 2007. I had a document passed to me that has the important points in the material shaded in a burgendy block with the letters in the background looking white. How can I learn how this was done? No reveal codes or anyother indications of how this was accomplished. Thank you for any help Jerry There are two steps: (1) Set the text's font color to Automatic, if it isn't already. The font color button is on the Home ribbon in the Font group, an A with a colored bar under it. (2) Set the paragraph shading to a dark color. The shading button is on the Home ribbon in the Paragraph group, with a paint-can icon. When the background is dark enough, the font color will automatically switch to white. Among the theme colors, it's mostly only the one at the bottom of each column that's dark enough -- hovering the mouse pointer over a color patch will change the selected text as a preview. Once you find the combination you like, make a quick style for it -- right-click the formatted text, click Styles, and choose "Save selection as a new quick style". -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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