Re: How do I change the reading pane background color?

[Roady [MVP]]

You changed it by changing the window background color in Windows perhaps?
See http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/fontsizecolor.htm

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"Art" <A...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I recently changed the background color of the reading pane and I cannot
> recall how I did it.
>
> Now I have others reqesting how I did it and ....
>
> Can someone here please help?
>
> Thank-you.

[Jake]

Hi Art,

I believe the reading pane background color setting you're looking for is
located in Internet Explorer's settings. It took me a long time to find it
myself since I was expecting (perhaps unreasonably) to find the setting in
Outlook.

In Internet Explorer:
+ Go to Tools -> Internet Options
+ Under the General tab click on Colors
+ Make sure "Use Windows Colors" is unchecked
+ Select the color you would like under Background

- Jake

[klep...@gmail.com]

Brilliant! Thanks Jake, my husband has been staring at the black preview screeen and just selecting the text to highlight it so he can read it, for at least 6 months.....Lazy arse that he is, i didnt help him figuring he would get sick of it eventually. Nope, too lazy! i got sick of it and typed the question into google and now i have it fixed within 2 minutes! Thanks your advice was spot on :)

[pax...@gmail.com]

Nope, doesn't work. I unchecked the box as u said, but there is no "background" button to press. My Outlook msgs continue to have a brown background. arggghh