I am trying to have a red background and type my comments in white. How can I
do this to get it to print?
TIA

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 15:59:02 -0700, "muddy2shoes"
wrote:

I am trying to have a red background and type my comments in white. How can I
do this to get it to print?
TIA

Select the text you want to format this way -- which I hope is only a
paragraph or two, since any more would be terribly hard on the eyes!

First go to Format Background & Shading, on the Shading tab, and
select red for the color. Make sure the Apply To box says Paragraph,
and click OK.

Now go to Format Font and set the color to white, and click OK.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

You often need to change the font to bold also: reversed type generally
appears lighter than the solid equivalent.





"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
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On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 15:59:02 -0700, "muddy2shoes"
wrote:

I am trying to have a red background and type my comments in white. How
can I
do this to get it to print?
TIA

Select the text you want to format this way -- which I hope is only a
paragraph or two, since any more would be terribly hard on the eyes!

First go to Format Background & Shading, on the Shading tab, and
select red for the color. Make sure the Apply To box says Paragraph,
and click OK.

Now go to Format Font and set the color to white, and click OK.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

You don't mean you are using red paper, do you?

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"muddy2shoes" wrote in message
...
I am trying to have a red background and type my comments in white. How can
I
do this to get it to print?
TIA

Yes, either bold, or choose a font with uniform thick strokes. Thin
ones such as Times New Roman tend to disappear, especially if you're
using an inkjet whose ink bleeds into the paper a bit.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 10:02:24 +1000, "Jezebel"
wrote:

You often need to change the font to bold also: reversed type generally
appears lighter than the solid equivalent.





"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
.. .
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 15:59:02 -0700, "muddy2shoes"
wrote:

I am trying to have a red background and type my comments in white. How
can I
do this to get it to print?
TIA

Select the text you want to format this way -- which I hope is only a
paragraph or two, since any more would be terribly hard on the eyes!

First go to Format Background & Shading, on the Shading tab, and
select red for the color. Make sure the Apply To box says Paragraph,
and click OK.

Now go to Format Font and set the color to white, and click OK.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

[chiisai]

I'm using red paper - is it impossible to print white text?

"JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]" wrote:

You don't mean you are using red paper, do you?

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"muddy2shoes" wrote in message
...
I am trying to have a red background and type my comments in white. How can
I
do this to get it to print?
TIA

[Jay Freedman]

That's correct, unless you happen to have a special printer that has
white ink. See http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/printing/f/white_ink.htm
for an explanation of why you're probably out of luck.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:26:00 -0800, chiisai
wrote:

I'm using red paper - is it impossible to print white text?

"JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]" wrote:

You don't mean you are using red paper, do you?

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"muddy2shoes" wrote in message
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I am trying to have a red background and type my comments in white. How can
I
do this to get it to print?
TIA