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How To: Get White Text on Black background
I want a 'highlight' line with reverse text. IOW: for this ONE line, the
text would be white and the background would be black. How do I do that. Since I have your attention, is there a "view" of a Word document that really shows what is going on? I am playing around with text boxes and I would like to be able to separate the location of boxes from the content and perhaps do most of the editing in another context. On this machine I am using Word 97 that I picked up long ago and re-installed on my XP machine. One our Vista machiune we have M$ Office 2002 student version. |
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How To: Get White Text on Black background
John
Try using Page Layout View for editing and Print Preview for final check of results. You need to select the phrase to be inverted. Then use Format, Borders and Shading and select the Background Tab. Set the background colour to Black and OK to close the dialog. The text should not be white on a black background. However, I suggest that you select the phrase again and use Format, Font and choose WHITE as the font colour rather than Automatic as frequently printer drivers screw up Automatic and print black text on the black background! -- Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP "John Gilmer" wrote in message ... I want a 'highlight' line with reverse text. IOW: for this ONE line, the text would be white and the background would be black. How do I do that. Since I have your attention, is there a "view" of a Word document that really shows what is going on? I am playing around with text boxes and I would like to be able to separate the location of boxes from the content and perhaps do most of the editing in another context. On this machine I am using Word 97 that I picked up long ago and re-installed on my XP machine. One our Vista machiune we have M$ Office 2002 student version. |
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I would like to be able to separate the location of boxes from the content snip This cannot be done. Everything in a Word doc is tied to the text as either In Line or Anchored to a paragraph. Terry's suggestion to work in Print Layout View is as close as it gets to being able to "see what's going on". For what you want to do you really should consider using a Desktop Publishing (page layout) program rather than a word processing application. Regards |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac |
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For what you want to do you really should consider using a Desktop Publishing (page layout) program rather than a word processing application. I'm sure you are correct. BUT M$ Word 97 is the best I have and that's that. Slight OT: Word seems to have been "billed" as "do everything." I am an "old guy" but I think I would have not major problems with M$ Word if I could easily determine WTF it is doing. For example: 1) a "right click" on a text box would reveal both backward and forward links; 2) etc. Regards |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac |
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Actually, Office XP for Students and Teachers allows installation on
only one computer at a time. The three-computer license was introduced in Office 2003 Students and Teachers Edition. CyberTaz wrote: In your first post you indicated that you also have the Student/Teacher edition of 2002(XP), which provides 3 installations. Unless they have all been previously activated you could install it on the WinXP system - whether it's "better" than 97 is open to discussion:-) |
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Thanks for the correction :-)
Regards |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 9/23/07 4:37 AM, in article , "garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote: Actually, Office XP for Students and Teachers allows installation on only one computer at a time. The three-computer license was introduced in Office 2003 Students and Teachers Edition. CyberTaz wrote: In your first post you indicated that you also have the Student/Teacher edition of 2002(XP), which provides 3 installations. Unless they have all been previously activated you could install it on the WinXP system - whether it's "better" than 97 is open to discussion:-) |
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