[Jen[_4_]]

In brief, Normal style is not supposed to be used for the bulk of your Body
Text. For body text you should use "Body Text" default style or create your
own body text style with name, for example, "MyBodyText"". So you modify the
Font in "MyyBodyText" style - all you are doing now is modifying the Normal
style which is the factory default for all new blank document screens.

Hope this helps.

"Rob E" wrote in message
...
I have found a problem with Themes in Word 2007. The help files state that
when a new theme is applied, it will change the colours of any text
formatted
with a heading style (1, 2, 3), etc, and also any paragraph text. The
problem I have is this:

- When applying a theme, The heading styles change colour, but the body
text (normal style) remains black (the font styles do change).

- The body text will only change colour if I modify the normal style to be
a
different colour. Once the Normal style is modified, the colour of the
body
text will change with each new theme.

- If the normal style is modified again to change the font colour back to
black, it remains black in all themes.

Could anyone explain please?

Any help would be appreciated.
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Thanks,
Rob E.