OT: Word problem
Gabor Deak Jahn
Hello,
off topic but I know that many of you (are forced to) use Word. I
don't but I'd need to help my uncle. In his Office XP Word, drawn
objects (rectangle, ellipse, whatever) can't be filled with color. If
a color is selected, the object actually receives the fill as the
Object properties dialog pops up on double click shows but the color
is never shown on the display. Everything remains white.
The same happens if an object is copied-pasted from another Word or
read in from a .DOC. It brings in the color as far as the properties
dialog is concerned but no color display on screen.
Coloring other elements like text works all right. Reinstalling Office
XP didn't help.
Bye,
Gabor
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Jim Hart
Hmmm...
I don't have WordXP, but I do have Word2003 and I can't duplicate. While
I do use Word, I would never use it for graphics so it took me a while
to even figure out how to create an object for testing.
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Gabor Deak Jahn
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 17:48:20 -0600, Jim Hart <ct...@microtecniqs.com>
wrote:
Jim,
> I don't have WordXP, but I do have Word2003 and I can't duplicate. While
> I do use Word, I would never use it for graphics so it took me a while
> to even figure out how to create an object for testing.
You probably couldn't duplicate it in a sane(r) copy of Word (although
I don't know what else could we do than to reinstall), it has been
working earlier in this one, too.
Neither would I use it myself, of course, but this time it's about a
large book in mathematics, with an inordinate amount of equations and
illustrations. Don't even start saying that it shouldn't be done in
Word, of course it shouldn't but there it is, already nearing
completion, ten plus years of hard work; this is not the time or
situation when it can be moved to anything else. Everything possible
is done to make Word co-operate, it is cut into many small pieces,
with very regular backups to CD so that anything can be saved if a
document starts to act funny.
Somewhere along this path I looked into possibilities of turning it
into TEX but, although there are converters for that, they weren't man
enough to handle to job. No other format could be used (not even
Ventura) because this is authoring in academia, not the preparation of
the final product in a press environment.
Abe Hendin
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;833258 ?
Gabor Deak Jahn wrote:
> Hello,
>
> off topic but I know that many of you (are forced to) use Word. I
> don't but I'd need to help my uncle. In his Office XP Word, drawn
> objects (rectangle, ellipse, whatever) can't be filled with color. If
> a color is selected, the object actually receives the fill as the
> Object properties dialog pops up on double click shows but the color
> is never shown on the display. Everything remains white.
--
Abe Hendin
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Gabor Deak Jahn
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 11:09:53 -0500, Abe Hendin <ne...@yourremspeed.com>
wrote:
Abe,
Thanks a lot, that was it. I searched the Net high and wide but it
never occured to me to look for "do not change", I tried every other
possible combination like "display", "problem", etc... :-))
Abe Hendin
Gabor Deak Jahn wrote:
> Thanks a lot, that was it. I searched the Net high and wide but it
> never occured to me to look for "do not change", I tried every other
> possible combination like "display", "problem", etc... :-))
Yeah, sometimes it can be hard to get the right combo. I googled
"Microsoft Word object fill color" and it was #7, courtesy of some
company that had collected it. Glad that was it.