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WORD 2003 color fill button does not allow selection
Word 2003 color fill button does not allow selection of a color. The panel
pops up but is all white boxes and does not allow selection. it is like this on formatting and drawing toolbars. It was working but suddenly it stopped. |
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WORD 2003 color fill button does not allow selection
Do you perhaps have High Contract selected in the Accessibility Options in
Windows Control Panel? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "unicorn" wrote in message ... Word 2003 color fill button does not allow selection of a color. The panel pops up but is all white boxes and does not allow selection. it is like this on formatting and drawing toolbars. It was working but suddenly it stopped. |
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WORD 2003 color fill button does not allow selection
No, it is not selected.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Do you perhaps have High Contract selected in the Accessibility Options in Windows Control Panel? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "unicorn" wrote in message ... Word 2003 color fill button does not allow selection of a color. The panel pops up but is all white boxes and does not allow selection. it is like this on formatting and drawing toolbars. It was working but suddenly it stopped. |
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WORD 2003 color fill button does not allow selection
I am also having this problem. It was working this morning and now I'm also
getting the grayed out boxes with no colors. I also don't have High Contrast enabled. Everything else looks fine. If this helps, before I was getting the grayed out boxes with no color, the little arrow that opens the button up wasn't working. I would click it and nothing would happen. Same with all the buttons that have those arrows. I removed the non-functional buttons and put them back on and they seem to be working again except now when that fill button opens, it shows no color options. I tried rebooting as well. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thank you! "unicorn" wrote: No, it is not selected. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Do you perhaps have High Contract selected in the Accessibility Options in Windows Control Panel? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "unicorn" wrote in message ... Word 2003 color fill button does not allow selection of a color. The panel pops up but is all white boxes and does not allow selection. it is like this on formatting and drawing toolbars. It was working but suddenly it stopped. |
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WORD 2003 color fill button does not allow selection
Fill Color and Line Color on the Drawing toolbar apply only to drawing
objects. To apply color to text and tables, you must use borders and shading. The Shading Color and Border Color buttons on the Tables and Borders toolbar have the same icons but a different purpose. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Treesy" wrote in message news  I am also having this problem. It was working this morning and now I'm also getting the grayed out boxes with no colors. I also don't have High Contrast enabled. Everything else looks fine. If this helps, before I was getting the grayed out boxes with no color, the little arrow that opens the button up wasn't working. I would click it and nothing would happen. Same with all the buttons that have those arrows. I removed the non-functional buttons and put them back on and they seem to be working again except now when that fill button opens, it shows no color options. I tried rebooting as well. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thank you! "unicorn" wrote: No, it is not selected. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Do you perhaps have High Contract selected in the Accessibility Options in Windows Control Panel? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "unicorn" wrote in message ... Word 2003 color fill button does not allow selection of a color. The panel pops up but is all white boxes and does not allow selection. it is like this on formatting and drawing toolbars. It was working but suddenly it stopped. |
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WORD 2003 color fill button does not allow selection
I can understand what you are saying.
But now there are 2 of us that were keying text in a document and used the button for highlighting the text with color and it suddenly stopped working. There is an issue here! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Fill Color and Line Color on the Drawing toolbar apply only to drawing objects. To apply color to text and tables, you must use borders and shading. The Shading Color and Border Color buttons on the Tables and Borders toolbar have the same icons but a different purpose. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Treesy" wrote in message news I am also having this problem. It was working this morning and now I'm also getting the grayed out boxes with no colors. I also don't have High Contrast enabled. Everything else looks fine. If this helps, before I was getting the grayed out boxes with no color, the little arrow that opens the button up wasn't working. I would click it and nothing would happen. Same with all the buttons that have those arrows. I removed the non-functional buttons and put them back on and they seem to be working again except now when that fill button opens, it shows no color options. I tried rebooting as well. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thank you! "unicorn" wrote: No, it is not selected. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Do you perhaps have High Contract selected in the Accessibility Options in Windows Control Panel? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "unicorn" wrote in message ... Word 2003 color fill button does not allow selection of a color. The panel pops up but is all white boxes and does not allow selection. it is like this on formatting and drawing toolbars. It was working but suddenly it stopped. |
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WORD 2003 color fill button does not allow selection
Were you using the Highlighter or shading?
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "unicorn" wrote in message ... I can understand what you are saying. But now there are 2 of us that were keying text in a document and used the button for highlighting the text with color and it suddenly stopped working. There is an issue here! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Fill Color and Line Color on the Drawing toolbar apply only to drawing objects. To apply color to text and tables, you must use borders and shading. The Shading Color and Border Color buttons on the Tables and Borders toolbar have the same icons but a different purpose. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Treesy" wrote in message news I am also having this problem. It was working this morning and now I'm also getting the grayed out boxes with no colors. I also don't have High Contrast enabled. Everything else looks fine. If this helps, before I was getting the grayed out boxes with no color, the little arrow that opens the button up wasn't working. I would click it and nothing would happen. Same with all the buttons that have those arrows. I removed the non-functional buttons and put them back on and they seem to be working again except now when that fill button opens, it shows no color options. I tried rebooting as well. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thank you! "unicorn" wrote: No, it is not selected. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Do you perhaps have High Contract selected in the Accessibility Options in Windows Control Panel? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "unicorn" wrote in message ... Word 2003 color fill button does not allow selection of a color. The panel pops up but is all white boxes and does not allow selection. it is like this on formatting and drawing toolbars. It was working but suddenly it stopped. |
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I was using the button with the paintcan. I was using it to shade a cell
within a table. Like Unicorn mentioned, it worked for me yesterday morning and then suddenly stopped working. ??? It works in Excel but not in my Word 2003. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Were you using the Highlighter or shading? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "unicorn" wrote in message ... I can understand what you are saying. But now there are 2 of us that were keying text in a document and used the button for highlighting the text with color and it suddenly stopped working. There is an issue here! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Fill Color and Line Color on the Drawing toolbar apply only to drawing objects. To apply color to text and tables, you must use borders and shading. The Shading Color and Border Color buttons on the Tables and Borders toolbar have the same icons but a different purpose. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Treesy" wrote in message news
I am also having this problem. It was working this morning and nowI'm also getting the grayed out boxes with no colors. I also don't have High Contrast enabled. Everything else looks fine. If this helps, before I was getting the grayed out boxes with no color, the little arrow that opens the button up wasn't working. I would click it and nothing would happen. Same with all the buttons that have those arrows. I removed the non-functional buttons and put them back on and they seem to be working again except now when that fill button opens, it shows no color options. I tried rebooting as well. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thank you! "unicorn" wrote: No, it is not selected. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Do you perhaps have High Contract selected in the Accessibility Options in Windows Control Panel? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "unicorn" wrote in message ... Word 2003 color fill button does not allow selection of a color. The panel pops up but is all white boxes and does not allow selection. it is like this on formatting and drawing toolbars. It was working but suddenly it stopped. |
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WORD 2003 color fill button does not allow selection
Suzanne, I just re-read your earlier post when you said that the fill color
button on the drawing toolbar has the same icon as the shading button for tables. While it doesn't explain why my button suddenly stopped working, can you tell me where that shading button is located? The only one I could find with the paintcan was on the drawing toolbar. I removed my button and reloaded it when the dropdown arrow stopped working so perhaps I loaded the incorrect button (which explains why I'm not getting any color options). When I'm in the Customize menu, where can I find the shading button? Thanks! "Treesy" wrote: I was using the button with the paintcan. I was using it to shade a cell within a table. Like Unicorn mentioned, it worked for me yesterday morning and then suddenly stopped working. ??? It works in Excel but not in my Word 2003. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Were you using the Highlighter or shading? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "unicorn" wrote in message ... I can understand what you are saying. But now there are 2 of us that were keying text in a document and used the button for highlighting the text with color and it suddenly stopped working. There is an issue here! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Fill Color and Line Color on the Drawing toolbar apply only to drawing objects. To apply color to text and tables, you must use borders and shading. The Shading Color and Border Color buttons on the Tables and Borders toolbar have the same icons but a different purpose. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Treesy" wrote in message news
I am also having this problem. It was working this morning and nowI'm also getting the grayed out boxes with no colors. I also don't have High Contrast enabled. Everything else looks fine. If this helps, before I was getting the grayed out boxes with no color, the little arrow that opens the button up wasn't working. I would click it and nothing would happen. Same with all the buttons that have those arrows. I removed the non-functional buttons and put them back on and they seem to be working again except now when that fill button opens, it shows no color options. I tried rebooting as well. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thank you! "unicorn" wrote: No, it is not selected. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Do you perhaps have High Contract selected in the Accessibility Options in Windows Control Panel? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "unicorn" wrote in message ... Word 2003 color fill button does not allow selection of a color. The panel pops up but is all white boxes and does not allow selection. it is like this on formatting and drawing toolbars. It was working but suddenly it stopped. |
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WORD 2003 color fill button does not allow selection
Nevermind. I looked under "All Commands" and found the button for
ShadingColor and it has the picture of the paintcan. That button works!! Thank you. Unicorn, I suggest you remove that button and reload the one called "ShadingColor" listed under All Commands. "Treesy" wrote: Suzanne, I just re-read your earlier post when you said that the fill color button on the drawing toolbar has the same icon as the shading button for tables. While it doesn't explain why my button suddenly stopped working, can you tell me where that shading button is located? The only one I could find with the paintcan was on the drawing toolbar. I removed my button and reloaded it when the dropdown arrow stopped working so perhaps I loaded the incorrect button (which explains why I'm not getting any color options). When I'm in the Customize menu, where can I find the shading button? Thanks! "Treesy" wrote: I was using the button with the paintcan. I was using it to shade a cell within a table. Like Unicorn mentioned, it worked for me yesterday morning and then suddenly stopped working. ??? It works in Excel but not in my Word 2003. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Were you using the Highlighter or shading? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "unicorn" wrote in message ... I can understand what you are saying. But now there are 2 of us that were keying text in a document and used the button for highlighting the text with color and it suddenly stopped working. There is an issue here! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Fill Color and Line Color on the Drawing toolbar apply only to drawing objects. To apply color to text and tables, you must use borders and shading. The Shading Color and Border Color buttons on the Tables and Borders toolbar have the same icons but a different purpose. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Treesy" wrote in message news
I am also having this problem. It was working this morning and nowI'm also getting the grayed out boxes with no colors. I also don't have High Contrast enabled. Everything else looks fine. If this helps, before I was getting the grayed out boxes with no color, the little arrow that opens the button up wasn't working. I would click it and nothing would happen. Same with all the buttons that have those arrows. I removed the non-functional buttons and put them back on and they seem to be working again except now when that fill button opens, it shows no color options. I tried rebooting as well. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thank you! "unicorn" wrote: No, it is not selected. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Do you perhaps have High Contract selected in the Accessibility Options in Windows Control Panel? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "unicorn" wrote in message ... Word 2003 color fill button does not allow selection of a color. The panel pops up but is all white boxes and does not allow selection. it is like this on formatting and drawing toolbars. It was working but suddenly it stopped. |
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The Shading Color and Border Color buttons are on the Tables and Borders
toolbar. Of course, you can also use the Borders and Shading dialog. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Treesy" wrote in message ... Suzanne, I just re-read your earlier post when you said that the fill color button on the drawing toolbar has the same icon as the shading button for tables. While it doesn't explain why my button suddenly stopped working, can you tell me where that shading button is located? The only one I could find with the paintcan was on the drawing toolbar. I removed my button and reloaded it when the dropdown arrow stopped working so perhaps I loaded the incorrect button (which explains why I'm not getting any color options). When I'm in the Customize menu, where can I find the shading button? Thanks! "Treesy" wrote: I was using the button with the paintcan. I was using it to shade a cell within a table. Like Unicorn mentioned, it worked for me yesterday morning and then suddenly stopped working. ??? It works in Excel but not in my Word 2003. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Were you using the Highlighter or shading? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "unicorn" wrote in message ... I can understand what you are saying. But now there are 2 of us that were keying text in a document and used the button for highlighting the text with color and it suddenly stopped working. There is an issue here! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Fill Color and Line Color on the Drawing toolbar apply only to drawing objects. To apply color to text and tables, you must use borders and shading. The Shading Color and Border Color buttons on the Tables and Borders toolbar have the same icons but a different purpose. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Treesy" wrote in message news
I am also having this problem. It was working this morning andnow I'm also getting the grayed out boxes with no colors. I also don't have High Contrast enabled. Everything else looks fine. If this helps, before I was getting the grayed out boxes with no color, the little arrow that opens the button up wasn't working. I would click it and nothing would happen. Same with all the buttons that have those arrows. I removed the non-functional buttons and put them back on and they seem to be working again except now when that fill button opens, it shows no color options. I tried rebooting as well. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thank you! "unicorn" wrote: No, it is not selected. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Do you perhaps have High Contract selected in the Accessibility Options in Windows Control Panel? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "unicorn" wrote in message ... Word 2003 color fill button does not allow selection of a color. The panel pops up but is all white boxes and does not allow selection. it is like this on formatting and drawing toolbars. It was working but suddenly it stopped. |
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I also had the same problem suddenly occur. I reset the button to
ShadingColor paintcan (thank you for helping me find this!) and worked fine --- for a while, then the same 'no fill' appears. I can remove the icon and reset button again. But this is a pain. Did something else change in Word?? "Treesy" wrote: Nevermind. I looked under "All Commands" and found the button for ShadingColor and it has the picture of the paintcan. That button works!! Thank you. Unicorn, I suggest you remove that button and reload the one called "ShadingColor" listed under All Commands. "Treesy" wrote: Suzanne, I just re-read your earlier post when you said that the fill color button on the drawing toolbar has the same icon as the shading button for tables. While it doesn't explain why my button suddenly stopped working, can you tell me where that shading button is located? The only one I could find with the paintcan was on the drawing toolbar. I removed my button and reloaded it when the dropdown arrow stopped working so perhaps I loaded the incorrect button (which explains why I'm not getting any color options). When I'm in the Customize menu, where can I find the shading button? Thanks! "Treesy" wrote: I was using the button with the paintcan. I was using it to shade a cell within a table. Like Unicorn mentioned, it worked for me yesterday morning and then suddenly stopped working. ??? It works in Excel but not in my Word 2003. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Were you using the Highlighter or shading? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "unicorn" wrote in message ... I can understand what you are saying. But now there are 2 of us that were keying text in a document and used the button for highlighting the text with color and it suddenly stopped working. There is an issue here! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Fill Color and Line Color on the Drawing toolbar apply only to drawing objects. To apply color to text and tables, you must use borders and shading. The Shading Color and Border Color buttons on the Tables and Borders toolbar have the same icons but a different purpose. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Treesy" wrote in message news
I am also having this problem. It was working this morning and nowI'm also getting the grayed out boxes with no colors. I also don't have High Contrast enabled. Everything else looks fine. If this helps, before I was getting the grayed out boxes with no color, the little arrow that opens the button up wasn't working. I would click it and nothing would happen. Same with all the buttons that have those arrows. I removed the non-functional buttons and put them back on and they seem to be working again except now when that fill button opens, it shows no color options. I tried rebooting as well. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thank you! "unicorn" wrote: No, it is not selected. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Do you perhaps have High Contract selected in the Accessibility Options in Windows Control Panel? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "unicorn" wrote in message ... Word 2003 color fill button does not allow selection of a color. The panel pops up but is all white boxes and does not allow selection. it is like this on formatting and drawing toolbars. It was working but suddenly it stopped. |
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Okay, let's take it from the top again:
1. There are two commands (buttons) that use the same icon: Fill Color and Shading Color. 2. The Fill Color button is on the Drawing toolbar. It is used for AutoShapes (including text boxes). If you don't have an AutoShape selected, this button is inactive. 3. The Shading Color button is on the Tables and Borders toolbar. It is used for text and tables. It should be active pretty much anytime, since it will by default (if you don't have text selected) shade the paragraph or table cell where the insertion point is located. Now, what part of that is not working for you? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "TAZ" wrote in message ... I also had the same problem suddenly occur. I reset the button to ShadingColor paintcan (thank you for helping me find this!) and worked fine --- for a while, then the same 'no fill' appears. I can remove the icon and reset button again. But this is a pain. Did something else change in Word?? "Treesy" wrote: Nevermind. I looked under "All Commands" and found the button for ShadingColor and it has the picture of the paintcan. That button works!! Thank you. Unicorn, I suggest you remove that button and reload the one called "ShadingColor" listed under All Commands. "Treesy" wrote: Suzanne, I just re-read your earlier post when you said that the fill color button on the drawing toolbar has the same icon as the shading button for tables. While it doesn't explain why my button suddenly stopped working, can you tell me where that shading button is located? The only one I could find with the paintcan was on the drawing toolbar. I removed my button and reloaded it when the dropdown arrow stopped working so perhaps I loaded the incorrect button (which explains why I'm not getting any color options). When I'm in the Customize menu, where can I find the shading button? Thanks! "Treesy" wrote: I was using the button with the paintcan. I was using it to shade a cell within a table. Like Unicorn mentioned, it worked for me yesterday morning and then suddenly stopped working. ??? It works in Excel but not in my Word 2003. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Were you using the Highlighter or shading? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "unicorn" wrote in message ... I can understand what you are saying. But now there are 2 of us that were keying text in a document and used the button for highlighting the text with color and it suddenly stopped working. There is an issue here! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Fill Color and Line Color on the Drawing toolbar apply only to drawing objects. To apply color to text and tables, you must use borders and shading. The Shading Color and Border Color buttons on the Tables and Borders toolbar have the same icons but a different purpose. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Treesy" wrote in message news
I am also having this problem. It was working this morningand now I'm also getting the grayed out boxes with no colors. I also don't have High Contrast enabled. Everything else looks fine. If this helps, before I was getting the grayed out boxes with no color, the little arrow that opens the button up wasn't working. I would click it and nothing would happen. Same with all the buttons that have those arrows. I removed the non-functional buttons and put them back on and they seem to be working again except now when that fill button opens, it shows no color options. I tried rebooting as well. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thank you! "unicorn" wrote: No, it is not selected. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Do you perhaps have High Contract selected in the Accessibility Options in Windows Control Panel? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "unicorn" wrote in message ... Word 2003 color fill button does not allow selection of a color. The panel pops up but is all white boxes and does not allow selection. it is like this on formatting and drawing toolbars. It was working but suddenly it stopped. |
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WORD 2003 color fill button does not allow selection
SUZANNE: There is definitely a glitch in Word 2003. I too have had the problem where the FILL COLOR button worked on text (for several years!) then suddenly it stopped working - i.e. the boxes on the drop down all became greyed out. I suspect this may have been caused by a recently installed Office Update The FILL COLOR button may well be intended to work only on Autoshapes, but that is academic - the fact is it DEFINITELY worked for several years on ordinary text. The same FILL COLOR button does (and always has) worked in Excel 2003. (And yes, I am aware that there is also a SHADING COLOR button which works on text in Word 2003). You might want to try the FILL COLOR button yourself in Excel 2003. Is the drop down all greyed out? Regards Simon W. (from England) "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Okay, let's take it from the top again: 1. There are two commands (buttons) that use the same icon: Fill Color and Shading Color. 2. The Fill Color button is on the Drawing toolbar. It is used for AutoShapes (including text boxes). If you don't have an AutoShape selected, this button is inactive. 3. The Shading Color button is on the Tables and Borders toolbar. It is used for text and tables. It should be active pretty much anytime, since it will by default (if you don't have text selected) shade the paragraph or table cell where the insertion point is located. Now, what part of that is not working for you? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "TAZ" wrote in message ... I also had the same problem suddenly occur. I reset the button to ShadingColor paintcan (thank you for helping me find this!) and worked fine --- for a while, then the same 'no fill' appears. I can remove the icon and reset button again. But this is a pain. Did something else change in Word?? "Treesy" wrote: Nevermind. I looked under "All Commands" and found the button for ShadingColor and it has the picture of the paintcan. That button works!! Thank you. Unicorn, I suggest you remove that button and reload the one called "ShadingColor" listed under All Commands. "Treesy" wrote: Suzanne, I just re-read your earlier post when you said that the fill color button on the drawing toolbar has the same icon as the shading button for tables. While it doesn't explain why my button suddenly stopped working, can you tell me where that shading button is located? The only one I could find with the paintcan was on the drawing toolbar. I removed my button and reloaded it when the dropdown arrow stopped working so perhaps I loaded the incorrect button (which explains why I'm not getting any color options). When I'm in the Customize menu, where can I find the shading button? Thanks! "Treesy" wrote: I was using the button with the paintcan. I was using it to shade a cell within a table. Like Unicorn mentioned, it worked for me yesterday morning and then suddenly stopped working. ??? It works in Excel but not in my Word 2003. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Were you using the Highlighter or shading? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "unicorn" wrote in message ... I can understand what you are saying. But now there are 2 of us that were keying text in a document and used the button for highlighting the text with color and it suddenly stopped working. There is an issue here! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Fill Color and Line Color on the Drawing toolbar apply only to drawing objects. To apply color to text and tables, you must use borders and shading. The Shading Color and Border Color buttons on the Tables and Borders toolbar have the same icons but a different purpose. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Treesy" wrote in message news
I am also having this problem. It was working this morningand now I'm also getting the grayed out boxes with no colors. I also don't have High Contrast enabled. Everything else looks fine. If this helps, before I was getting the grayed out boxes with no color, the little arrow that opens the button up wasn't working. I would click it and nothing would happen. Same with all the buttons that have those arrows. I removed the non-functional buttons and put them back on and they seem to be working again except now when that fill button opens, it shows no color options. I tried rebooting as well. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thank you! "unicorn" wrote: No, it is not selected. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Do you perhaps have High Contract selected in the Accessibility Options in Windows Control Panel? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "unicorn" wrote in message ... Word 2003 color fill button does not allow selection of a color. The panel pops up but is all white boxes and does not allow selection. it is like this on formatting and drawing toolbars. It was working but suddenly it stopped. |
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WORD 2003 color fill button does not allow selection
No, I'm not remembering Excel. (It still works in Excel). I have been using Fill Color in Word text ever since we bought Office 2003 and when I say that it definitely worked in Word text on this machine, I mean DEFINITELY. There is no question about it and the other people on this thread who have said the same thing are absolutely right. We have other business machines here with Office 2003 installed and it still works on them (they haven't had the Office updates). So if you want proof, I will send you a screenshot! Simon. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I suspect you are remembering Excel, then, as I don't believe the Fill Color button on the Drawing toolbar has ever worked on text (except in a text box). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Simon W" Simon wrote in message ... SUZANNE: There is definitely a glitch in Word 2003. I too have had the problem where the FILL COLOR button worked on text (for several years!) then suddenly it stopped working - i.e. the boxes on the drop down all became greyed out. I suspect this may have been caused by a recently installed Office Update The FILL COLOR button may well be intended to work only on Autoshapes, but that is academic - the fact is it DEFINITELY worked for several years on ordinary text. The same FILL COLOR button does (and always has) worked in Excel 2003. (And yes, I am aware that there is also a SHADING COLOR button which works on text in Word 2003). You might want to try the FILL COLOR button yourself in Excel 2003. Is the drop down all greyed out? Regards Simon W. (from England) "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Okay, let's take it from the top again: 1. There are two commands (buttons) that use the same icon: Fill Color and Shading Color. 2. The Fill Color button is on the Drawing toolbar. It is used for AutoShapes (including text boxes). If you don't have an AutoShape selected, this button is inactive. 3. The Shading Color button is on the Tables and Borders toolbar. It is used for text and tables. It should be active pretty much anytime, since it will by default (if you don't have text selected) shade the paragraph or table cell where the insertion point is located. Now, what part of that is not working for you? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "TAZ" wrote in message ... I also had the same problem suddenly occur. I reset the button to ShadingColor paintcan (thank you for helping me find this!) and worked fine --- for a while, then the same 'no fill' appears. I can remove the icon and reset button again. But this is a pain. Did something else change in Word?? "Treesy" wrote: Nevermind. I looked under "All Commands" and found the button for ShadingColor and it has the picture of the paintcan. That button works!! Thank you. Unicorn, I suggest you remove that button and reload the one called "ShadingColor" listed under All Commands. "Treesy" wrote: Suzanne, I just re-read your earlier post when you said that the fill color button on the drawing toolbar has the same icon as the shading button for tables. While it doesn't explain why my button suddenly stopped working, can you tell me where that shading button is located? The only one I could find with the paintcan was on the drawing toolbar. I removed my button and reloaded it when the dropdown arrow stopped working so perhaps I loaded the incorrect button (which explains why I'm not getting any color options). When I'm in the Customize menu, where can I find the shading button? Thanks! "Treesy" wrote: I was using the button with the paintcan. I was using it to shade a cell within a table. Like Unicorn mentioned, it worked for me yesterday morning and then suddenly stopped working. ??? It works in Excel but not in my Word 2003. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Were you using the Highlighter or shading? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "unicorn" wrote in message ... I can understand what you are saying. But now there are 2 of us that were keying text in a document and used the button for highlighting the text with color and it suddenly stopped working. There is an issue here! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Fill Color and Line Color on the Drawing toolbar apply only to drawing objects. To apply color to text and tables, you must use borders and shading. The Shading Color and Border Color buttons on the Tables and Borders toolbar have the same icons but a different purpose. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Treesy" wrote in message news
I am also having this problem. It was working thismorning and now I'm also getting the grayed out boxes with no colors. I also don't have High Contrast enabled. Everything else looks fine. If this helps, before I was getting the grayed out boxes with no color, the little arrow that opens the button up wasn't working. I would click it and nothing would happen. Same with all the buttons that have those arrows. I removed the non-functional buttons and put them back on and they seem to be working again except now when that fill button opens, it shows no color options. I tried rebooting as well. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thank you! "unicorn" wrote: No, it is not selected. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Do you perhaps have High Contract selected in the Accessibility Options in Windows Control Panel? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "unicorn" wrote in message ... Word 2003 color fill button does not allow selection of a color. The panel pops up but is all white boxes and does not allow selection. it is like this on formatting and drawing toolbars. It was working but suddenly it stopped. |
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