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Can I set display color of formatting marks?
Hi, I would like to change the color of the formatting marks. For example, if
the text I'me writting is black, I would Word to display the formatting marks in a light grey. How can I proceed? Is it possible? Thanks |
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Can I set display color of formatting marks?
Nice idea but, as far as I know, not possible.
-- Enjoy, Tony "Matthias" wrote in message ... Hi, I would like to change the color of the formatting marks. For example, if the text I'me writting is black, I would Word to display the formatting marks in a light grey. How can I proceed? Is it possible? Thanks |
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Can I set display color of formatting marks?
Except on a Mac, where I believe it is the default.
-- 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. "Tony Jollans" My Forename at My Surname dot com wrote in message ... Nice idea but, as far as I know, not possible. -- Enjoy, Tony "Matthias" wrote in message ... Hi, I would like to change the color of the formatting marks. For example, if the text I'me writting is black, I would Word to display the formatting marks in a light grey. How can I proceed? Is it possible? Thanks |
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Can I set display color of formatting marks?
You learn something new each day! Why on earth would they design two
different interfaces and package them into two different environments like that? -- Enjoy, Tony "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Except on a Mac, where I believe it is the default. -- 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. "Tony Jollans" My Forename at My Surname dot com wrote in message ... Nice idea but, as far as I know, not possible. -- Enjoy, Tony "Matthias" wrote in message ... Hi, I would like to change the color of the formatting marks. For example, if the text I'me writting is black, I would Word to display the formatting marks in a light grey. How can I proceed? Is it possible? Thanks |
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Can I set display color of formatting marks?
Hi Matthias,
In Word 2003, you can use the replace function of edit to replace all the little space markers with gray space markers. Here's how: Save your document first! 1) If the Formatting Marks are not showing, Click Show/Hide on the Standard toolbar (Hint: To display a toolbar, press ALT and then SHIFT+F10.). 2) On the standard toolbar, go to Edit, Select Replace, and click on the "More" tab at the bottom of the "Find and Replace" window. 3) Click in the "Find what" box and type in a single space. 4) Click in the "Replace with" box and again type in a single space. 5) Click on "Options" box at the bottom of the "Find and Replace" window and select "fonts". 6) In the "Replace Font" Window, select Font style Bold, Size 24, Font Color Light Gray (or, if you would prefer, Red), and ensure that the subscript and superscript boxes are cleared if checked or filled in. (Add, modify, or omit steps here as needed to get the visibility desired). Click OK 7) Back now in the "Find and Replace" window, select replace all. 8) Click "OK". 9) Close the "Find and Replace" window. This could be made into a macro and added to the toolbar for use in other documents. You can use CTRL-C (copy) and CTRL-V (paste) to enter any other non-printing formatting marks into the replace routine given above, and they too could be made into macros (Macro to replace a Space Black Dot with a Gray Dot, Macro to replace Pilcrow Sign with Green Pilcrow Sign, etc.) Hope this helps, Art On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 05:50:32 -0800, "Matthias" wrote: Hi, I would like to change the color of the formatting marks. For example, if the text I'me writting is black, I would Word to display the formatting marks in a light grey. How can I proceed? Is it possible? Thanks |
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Can I set display color of formatting marks?
If you change the size of the font (e.g change the space to 24 points) it
will completely screw up the formatting of the document? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Art in VT wrote: Hi Matthias, In Word 2003, you can use the replace function of edit to replace all the little space markers with gray space markers. Here's how: Save your document first! 1) If the Formatting Marks are not showing, Click Show/Hide on the Standard toolbar (Hint: To display a toolbar, press ALT and then SHIFT+F10.). 2) On the standard toolbar, go to Edit, Select Replace, and click on the "More" tab at the bottom of the "Find and Replace" window. 3) Click in the "Find what" box and type in a single space. 4) Click in the "Replace with" box and again type in a single space. 5) Click on "Options" box at the bottom of the "Find and Replace" window and select "fonts". 6) In the "Replace Font" Window, select Font style Bold, Size 24, Font Color Light Gray (or, if you would prefer, Red), and ensure that the subscript and superscript boxes are cleared if checked or filled in. (Add, modify, or omit steps here as needed to get the visibility desired). Click OK 7) Back now in the "Find and Replace" window, select replace all. 8) Click "OK". 9) Close the "Find and Replace" window. This could be made into a macro and added to the toolbar for use in other documents. You can use CTRL-C (copy) and CTRL-V (paste) to enter any other non-printing formatting marks into the replace routine given above, and they too could be made into macros (Macro to replace a Space Black Dot with a Gray Dot, Macro to replace Pilcrow Sign with Green Pilcrow Sign, etc.) Hope this helps, Art On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 05:50:32 -0800, "Matthias" wrote: Hi, I would like to change the color of the formatting marks. For example, if the text I'me writting is black, I would Word to display the formatting marks in a light grey. How can I proceed? Is it possible? Thanks |
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Can I set display color of formatting marks?
You know, in all the excitement of finding a way to show the little
buggers I hadn't even considered that. Another "bug" with this method is that if you insert a letter at the beginning of any given word, it takes on the format of the previously replaced spaces. This technique then only works to highlight the spaces, and should be undone (edit, undo) before doing any revisions to the document (which of course you saved already!). Apologies for the oversight and many thanks for pointing out the problem with this method. Any suggestions for an effective way to display the formatting marks without otherwise screwing up the document? I tried using the same font size and using the double strikeout which helps preserve the justification, but which leaves the problem with insertions taking on the new formatting unresolved. Using a symbol and marking it hidden also doesn't work since the space disappears when the markup does. Thanks again for pointing out the snafu. Art On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 08:44:16 +0200, "Graham Mayor" wrote: If you change the size of the font (e.g change the space to 24 points) it will completely screw up the formatting of the document? |
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