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display white on black vs white on blue in Word/Excel
MS Word 2003 has a white on blue display option; would like to expand to
white on black in Word and Excel. Ideally this is a screen display option and does not affect colors in printing. Interest groups: migraineurs and their kin, for whom screen flicker or white light can be painful or trigger headaches, dizziness, or nausea. Color inversion softwares like Zoomtext work but seem to take many CPU cycles and destabilize the system. Integrating the feature into the product would be better. Would MS consult neurologists and non-consensus focus groups to confirm interest? The median person probably finds white on black depressing (see NLP-Neuro Linguistic Programming, 80% of population visual). Their needs are already covered by the defaults so aside from not making the option so prominent as to be a nuisance, the majority doesn't need to be consulted again. Due to customary use of backgrounds in Powerpoint, I'm not sure implementing this in Powerpoint would be helpful, and I don't use or know routine Access users enough to comment; similarly I can't comment on the html code making software. Would this post belong better in "Word Page Layout"? ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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display white on black vs white on blue in Word/Excel
It won't really matter where you post it; it's a suggestion that will NOT be
implemented. White text on blue background has been removed from Word 2007 and will not be reinstated. -- 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. "Socionomist50" wrote in message ... MS Word 2003 has a white on blue display option; would like to expand to white on black in Word and Excel. Ideally this is a screen display option and does not affect colors in printing. Interest groups: migraineurs and their kin, for whom screen flicker or white light can be painful or trigger headaches, dizziness, or nausea. Color inversion softwares like Zoomtext work but seem to take many CPU cycles and destabilize the system. Integrating the feature into the product would be better. Would MS consult neurologists and non-consensus focus groups to confirm interest? The median person probably finds white on black depressing (see NLP-Neuro Linguistic Programming, 80% of population visual). Their needs are already covered by the defaults so aside from not making the option so prominent as to be a nuisance, the majority doesn't need to be consulted again. Due to customary use of backgrounds in Powerpoint, I'm not sure implementing this in Powerpoint would be helpful, and I don't use or know routine Access users enough to comment; similarly I can't comment on the html code making software. Would this post belong better in "Word Page Layout"? ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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display white on black vs white on blue in Word/Excel
The White on Blue choice was implemented early in Word to emulate the appearance of WordPerfect for DOS.
As the issue with headaches et al you mention is not restricted to the Office apps you can use the Windows property settings for your display or through the Accessibility display choices in the Windows control panel to change the 'paper' appearance in Word from white to an offwhite/gray or color and you may also want to check the screen cyle (Hz) refresh rate setting of your monitors in the display properties of Windows. The 'flicker' at a specific rate (60 Hz commonly) when changed has also been known to reduce the reactions to what many of us don't notice as a light change. ========= "Socionomist50" wrote in message ... MS Word 2003 has a white on blue display option; would like to expand to white on black in Word and Excel. Ideally this is a screen display option and does not affect colors in printing. Interest groups: migraineurs and their kin, for whom screen flicker or white light can be painful or trigger headaches, dizziness, or nausea. Color inversion softwares like Zoomtext work but seem to take many CPU cycles and destabilize the system. Integrating the feature into the product would be better. Would MS consult neurologists and non-consensus focus groups to confirm interest? The median person probably finds white on black depressing (see NLP-Neuro Linguistic Programming, 80% of population visual). Their needs are already covered by the defaults so aside from not making the option so prominent as to be a nuisance, the majority doesn't need to be consulted again. Due to customary use of backgrounds in Powerpoint, I'm not sure implementing this in Powerpoint would be helpful, and I don't use or know routine Access users enough to comment; similarly I can't comment on the html code making software. Would this post belong better in "Word Page Layout"? -- I hope this helped you, Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office system products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends LINKS to the 2007 Office System 1. Free MS Office 2007 book from MS Press, 213 pages: http://microsoft.com/learning/office...oksfrommspress 2.. Office 2007 Beta 2 Online Test Drive, Downloadable beta, e-learning courses, doucmentation and movies: http://microsoft.com/office/preview 3. Send 2007 Office System Beta 2 feedback directly to the MS Office 2007 product team with this feedback tool: http://sas.office.microsoft.com/ 4. Try the 2007 OfficeOnline preview website , without Office2007 a. Install the ActiveX access control http://office.microsoft.com/search/r...XT101650581033 b. then visit http://officebeta.iponet.net |
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