[gordo]

"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message
...

The underline of the Font Color button shows whichever color you most
recently applied (and defaults to red when you reopen the file).


Yes, I realize that. I want to change the default to black so that when I
open Word, it shows black instead of red.

Gordo

On Feb 8, 9:33 am, "gordo" wrote:
Thanks Stefan, but I guess I was not quite clear. I would like to change
the
Font Color button, in the Font Group. It is the upper case A, underlined
in
red with the drop down arrow. I believe that your suggestion applies to
the
default font color for text that you type.

And yes, I did forget to state which version of Word, it is 2010.

Thanks,

Gordo

"Stefan Blom" wrote in ...

Assuming that you are using Word 2007 or later, do the following: Press
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S to display the Styles pane. Click the Manage Styles icon.
On the Set Defaults tab, make the desired changes. Select "New documents
based on this template," and then click OK.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

"gordo" wrote in ...

Is there a way to change the font color button in the font group to
black
as the default, permanently. I cannot find anything. Perhaps there is a
registry value. There does not seem to be a way to change the
normal.dotm
file.

Thanks,

Gordo