Background Color and Normal.dot

[Cory]

Greetings,

With the addition of the background color property I have found that setting
the background to dark and the font color to light makes reading much easier
on the eyes. Unfortunately, I am a little on the lazy side so I wish to have
Word (2007) do this automatically everytime I open or create a new document.
I figured that starting with new would be easiest, so in Normal.dot>New
Module I put an AutoNew macro that changed the bakground color and text to my
liking. It works when executed from the immediate window, but not on
loading. I am at a bit of a loss. Isn't the AutoNew event handler supposed
to execute when a new document is created using the selected (In this case
Normal.dot) template?

Cory

 

[Greg Maxey]

I realize that I am not answering your question, but if you want a
dark background on every new document that is based on normal.dotm and
and normal.dotx why don't you just open the templates, set the
background and save them?

 

[Tony Jollans]

Greg is correct but I will try to answer the question for anybody that wants
to know.

If you create a new document (File > New) in Word, the event code should run
but it is *not* fired when Word is opened with a new blank document - I have
never come across any explanation for this, it's just the way it is.