Calendar events marked by category faded,difficult to read in Month-view

[dsrielly]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Power PC
Email Client: pop

Hello,

I just upgraded from Office 2004 to Office 2008, and in the Month view of my Calendar, all of the appointments I've marked with different categories (i.e. Personal, Travel, etc) now look very faded and are difficult to read.

In the Week view they're fine, as the text is black and the background is the category color, but in the Month-view the text is in the same color as the category, and the words are now so faded in color that I have to squint.

is there any way to "punch up" or fortify the color of the text?

Thanks immensely- David

 

[William Smith]

Hello,

I just upgraded from Office 2004 to Office 2008, and in the Month
view of my Calendar, all of the appointments I've marked with
different categories (i.e. Personal, Travel, etc) now look very faded
and are difficult to read.

In the Week view they're fine, as the text is black and the
background is the category color, but in the Month-view the text is
in the same color as the category, and the words are now so faded in
color that I have to squint.

is there any way to "punch up" or fortify the color of the text?

Hi David!

You can't adjust the text independently of the background color when a
category is applied. Entourage uses an algorithm that's suppose to make
the text easier to read and make the background color interfere less
with overprinted text.

You may need to tweak the tones of your category colors to get something
easier to view.

Hope this helps!

--

bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>

 

[dsrielly]

Thanks Bill! I guess I was hoping that the colors that had worked for 2004 would work again here, but once I went in and adjusted the individual category colors (I used the "crayon" function to make sure) the calendar became perfectly legible again.

Good solution. :sillygrin: