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Rafael Montserrat - 29 Apr 2008 00:01 GMT

OS 10.4.11
Ibook G4
1.5 GB Ram
Word 2004

Hi,

I have "font color" set to 'auto' (black), but on the screen the characters
are actually dark gray. I select the page, and re-set Automatic and I can
see the characters change from gray to black. What is going wrong here?

Thanks, Rafael

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John McGhie - 29 Apr 2008 13:20 GMT

Hi Rafael:

You have the font colour set "where"?

You can set the font colour directly in the Font dialog, in a Character
style, or in a Paragraph style.

In Word 2008, you can also set a document Theme, which will vary the colour
of several styles at once.

Cheers

On 29/04/08 8:31 AM, in article C43BA574.6655%rmnospam@abc.com, "Rafael
Montserrat" <rmnospam@abc.com> wrote:

> OS 10.4.11
> Ibook G4
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>
> Thanks, Rafael

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Rafael Montserrat - 30 Apr 2008 19:11 GMT

Hi John,

The dark gray doesn't seem to appear all the time, but lately it's appearing
frequently.

On 4/29/08 5:20 AM, in article C43D489B.12E2C%john@mcghie.name, "John
McGhie" <john@mcghie.name> wrote:

> Hi Rafael:
>
> You have the font colour set "where"?

On the toolbar icon at the top called "Font Color/Auto" (black bar on the
bottom, pyramid on the right, on the left, three stacked colors.
or in Format>Font>font color/Automatic. I've always thought that
'Automatic' is the default to black.

> You can set the font colour directly in the Font dialog,

I know how to set it in Font dialog where the font color drop down menu is
the same as the icon.

> in a Character > style, or in a Paragraph style. > In Word 2008, you can
> also set a document Theme, which will vary the colour of several styles at
> once.

Do you mean Format >Style>Modify I see that here in Modify, when I
choose 'Automatic' the 'description' in the style window doesn't mention
color at all, whereas when I choose 'black', the description includes
'black'. Is choosing 'automatic' throwing me off from keeping a black
default text? I never paid attention to that 'description'. Does the
description of one's set up like thatg appear anywhere else?

I don't know much about 'styles'. Should I, for this problem?

> In Word 2008, you can > also set a document Theme, which will vary the colour
> of several styles at > once.

Beyond me for now, thanks. Also I have 2004 which does for now do all I
need.

Thanks,

Rafael

> Cheers
>
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>> Thanks, Rafael

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John McGhie - 02 May 2008 10:54 GMT

Hi Rafael:

On 1/05/08 3:41 AM, in article C43E0447.6838%rmnospam@abc.com, "Rafael
Montserrat" <rmnospam@abc.com> wrote:

>> You have the font colour set "where"?
> On the toolbar icon at the top called "Font Color/Auto" (black bar on the
> bottom, pyramid on the right, on the left, three stacked colors.
> or in Format>Font>font color/Automatic. I've always thought that
> 'Automatic' is the default to black.

Automatic will default to black under most circumstances. However, it also
enables Word to change the colour of the contrast between the text and any
applied shading is less than 50 per cent. So if you apply a black shading,
Automatic will enable the font to switch to White.

>> You can set the font colour directly in the Font dialog,
> I know how to set it in Font dialog where the font color drop down menu is
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>
> I don't know much about 'styles'. Should I, for this problem?

Yes. In Word 2004 and later, ALL formatting is a style internally, even if
Word hides the name from you. So yes, it would help to know styles. You
will suffer a lot less confusion when the unexpected happens :-)

I think that may be your problem. If the font colour in the style is set to
Automatic, then it will show "Automatic" in that dialog when you modify the
style.

If it shows "blank" it means "Undefined" which would mean that the style has
picked up a "colour" that Word 2004 doesn't know about.

Change it to Automatic and you will probably fix your problem in that
document.

Check the box that says "Add to template" o your way out, and you'll fix it
for future documents too.

Documents that already exist will need to be fixed one by one.

Hope this helps

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