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Glenn Bradley

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Dec 9, 1999, 3:00:00 AM12/9/99
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I'am a casual (very) user of wp and would like to know how to change the
color of the background on all documents that I would open in wp.
Currently the background is white, but after a while it hurts. I'd like
to change to blue. How can I do this? I tried control panel/display and
changed appearance/application background to blue or even red but that
does not change the default white background that I see when opening or
creating a new document. Help ?

AAW

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Dec 9, 1999, 3:00:00 AM12/9/99
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Glenn Bradley wrote:

Glenn,

About all you can do is use Windows system colors (Tools | Settings, double
click on Display, Document tab, second box under Show). The drawback is that
you won't see any colors you apply to text.

Regards,
Arn


Alan Katz

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Dec 10, 1999, 3:00:00 AM12/10/99
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Click TOOLS, SETTINGS, DISPLAY. Check WINDOWS SYSTEM COLORS. then START,
SETTINGS, CONTROL PANEL, DISPLAY, APPEARANCE, and make your changes.


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Charles Rossiter

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Dec 10, 1999, 3:00:00 AM12/10/99
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Arn,

You do actually see text colours in WPWin9, (but not in WPWin8 as you say)
using teh Windows colours option. One feature I particulalry like.


AAW wrote:
>
> Glenn,
>
> About all you can do is use Windows system colors (Tools | Settings, double
> click on Display, Document tab, second box under Show). The drawback is that
> you won't see any colors you apply to text.
>
> Regards,
> Arn

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Joanne

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Dec 10, 1999, 3:00:00 AM12/10/99
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You might want to try:
Format | Page | Border | select Border type Line and then choose the Fill
tab | select the foreground color | OK
This will color *most* of the page (some of the margins will still appear
white). You could wrote a quick macro to do this for you when you open a
document. You'll just have to remember to delete the PageBorder option from
the reveal codes list before you print!

Joanne


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Dave Braze

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Dec 10, 1999, 3:00:00 AM12/10/99
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Charles Rossiter wrote:

> Arn,
>
> You do actually see text colours in WPWin9, (but not in WPWin8 as you say)
> using teh Windows colours option. One feature I particulalry like.

Ahh! That's nice to know. The lack of this in WP8 is one of it's (admittedly few)
annoyances.


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AAW

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Dec 10, 1999, 3:00:00 AM12/10/99
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Thanks, Charles. Trivial as it may sound to others, I'm adding that to my Reasons
to Upgrade list. It's been a sore point with me (and my eyes <g>) for a long time.

Arn

Charles Rossiter wrote:

> Arn,
>
> You do actually see text colours in WPWin9, (but not in WPWin8 as you say)
> using teh Windows colours option. One feature I particulalry like.
>

Scott Casey

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Dec 11, 1999, 3:00:00 AM12/11/99
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Joanne wrote:

> You might want to try:
> Format | Page | Border | select Border type Line and then choose the Fill
> tab | select the foreground color | OK
> This will color *most* of the page (some of the margins will still appear
> white). You could wrote a quick macro to do this for you when you open a
> document. You'll just have to remember to delete the PageBorder option from
> the reveal codes list before you print!
>

This is the one I was going to suggest, with a small difference: under
fill|styles, there's a 'sticky note' style at the bottom of the list of
available styles. Easy to change color from there.

I could see a macro which deletes the fill, prints & puts it back (?)

Scott Casey
C_Tech Volunteer


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