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Lighter shade of grey for fields?
Is there way that I can set a lighter shade of grey for fields?
When I move the cursor into a table of contents, for example, the grey is so dark that my old eyes can barely read the entries. I would like to lightened it up several shades. -- Office 2007 Pro on WinXP |
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Lighter shade of grey for fields?
No, this is not possible, but you don't have to have shading enabled for
fields. -- 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. "LurfysMa" wrote in message ... Is there way that I can set a lighter shade of grey for fields? When I move the cursor into a table of contents, for example, the grey is so dark that my old eyes can barely read the entries. I would like to lightened it up several shades. -- Office 2007 Pro on WinXP |
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Lighter shade of grey for fields?
On Sun, 27 May 2007 23:35:42 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote: No, this is not possible, but you don't have to have shading enabled for fields. In case anyone cares, that can be done via: Office button (Alt+F) Word options (at bottom or Alt+I) Advanced option (I thought menus were gone...) Show document content section (3rd) Field shading (set to "Never") I guess the geniuses at MSFT were so busy designing ribbons and moving options around that they didn't have time to allow a lighter shade of grey. I bet I can get a large number of people to agre that it is way too dark. -- Office 2007 Pro on WinXP |
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Lighter shade of grey for fields?
You can use a macro such as the following:
Dim tocf As Field For Each tocf In ActiveDocument.Fields If tocf.Type = wdFieldTOC Then tocf.Select Selection.Range.Shading.BackgroundPatternColor = wdColorGray10 ' Selection.Range.Shading.BackgroundPatternColor = wdColorAutomatic End If Next tocf To remove the shading, uncomment the line that ends in wdColorAutomatic -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "LurfysMa" wrote in message ... On Sun, 27 May 2007 23:35:42 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: No, this is not possible, but you don't have to have shading enabled for fields. In case anyone cares, that can be done via: Office button (Alt+F) Word options (at bottom or Alt+I) Advanced option (I thought menus were gone...) Show document content section (3rd) Field shading (set to "Never") I guess the geniuses at MSFT were so busy designing ribbons and moving options around that they didn't have time to allow a lighter shade of grey. I bet I can get a large number of people to agre that it is way too dark. -- Office 2007 Pro on WinXP |
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Lighter shade of grey for fields?
Advanced option (I thought menus were gone...)
Yes. If Ribbons are the future, why is there a Quick Access Toolbar that we can customise instead of a Quick Access Ribbon that we can customise? -- Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP |
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Lighter shade of grey for fields?
FWIW... the shading isn't any darker in Word 2007 than it was in Word 2003
and earlier. I have terrible vision, but found the field shading to be too dark only once -- and that was on a laptop computer on which the contract and brightness were maladjusted. After making a slight adjustment, the text in shaded fields was a lot more readable. Or, to paraphrase Eleanor Roosevelt, It is better to adjust the brightness and contrast than to curse the darkness. ;-) As always, of course, YMMV... -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "LurfysMa" wrote in message ... On Sun, 27 May 2007 23:35:42 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: No, this is not possible, but you don't have to have shading enabled for fields. In case anyone cares, that can be done via: Office button (Alt+F) Word options (at bottom or Alt+I) Advanced option (I thought menus were gone...) Show document content section (3rd) Field shading (set to "Never") I guess the geniuses at MSFT were so busy designing ribbons and moving options around that they didn't have time to allow a lighter shade of grey. I bet I can get a large number of people to agre that it is way too dark. -- Office 2007 Pro on WinXP |
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Lighter shade of grey for fields?
Interesting: I had thought "It is better to light a candle than to curse the
darkness" was biblical. Although Google does turn up cites for Eleanor Roosevelt, most sources call it a Chinese proverb. -- 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. "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message ... FWIW... the shading isn't any darker in Word 2007 than it was in Word 2003 and earlier. I have terrible vision, but found the field shading to be too dark only once -- and that was on a laptop computer on which the contract and brightness were maladjusted. After making a slight adjustment, the text in shaded fields was a lot more readable. Or, to paraphrase Eleanor Roosevelt, It is better to adjust the brightness and contrast than to curse the darkness. ;-) As always, of course, YMMV... -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "LurfysMa" wrote in message ... On Sun, 27 May 2007 23:35:42 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: No, this is not possible, but you don't have to have shading enabled for fields. In case anyone cares, that can be done via: Office button (Alt+F) Word options (at bottom or Alt+I) Advanced option (I thought menus were gone...) Show document content section (3rd) Field shading (set to "Never") I guess the geniuses at MSFT were so busy designing ribbons and moving options around that they didn't have time to allow a lighter shade of grey. I bet I can get a large number of people to agre that it is way too dark. -- Office 2007 Pro on WinXP |
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Lighter shade of grey for fields?
Eleanor was fond of saying it, but never claimed credit as far as I can
tell. However, since she's the one from whom I learned it, I always give her credit. I'll bet there are a lot of other Chinese proverbs that Eleanor Roosevelt wrote, as well. ;-) -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Interesting: I had thought "It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness" was biblical. Although Google does turn up cites for Eleanor Roosevelt, most sources call it a Chinese proverb. -- 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. "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message ... FWIW... the shading isn't any darker in Word 2007 than it was in Word 2003 and earlier. I have terrible vision, but found the field shading to be too dark only once -- and that was on a laptop computer on which the contract and brightness were maladjusted. After making a slight adjustment, the text in shaded fields was a lot more readable. Or, to paraphrase Eleanor Roosevelt, It is better to adjust the brightness and contrast than to curse the darkness. ;-) As always, of course, YMMV... -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "LurfysMa" wrote in message ... On Sun, 27 May 2007 23:35:42 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: No, this is not possible, but you don't have to have shading enabled for fields. In case anyone cares, that can be done via: Office button (Alt+F) Word options (at bottom or Alt+I) Advanced option (I thought menus were gone...) Show document content section (3rd) Field shading (set to "Never") I guess the geniuses at MSFT were so busy designing ribbons and moving options around that they didn't have time to allow a lighter shade of grey. I bet I can get a large number of people to agre that it is way too dark. -- Office 2007 Pro on WinXP |
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