Changing display colors in Word to green on black

[MSFT Making Me Blind]

Word only offers black text on white or white text on blue. The former is
very bad for your eyes if you stare at a terminal all day and the latter is
not much better.

Green or amber text on black is the ideal text for human eyes. How can I
change Microsoft Word to do this? I'm referring to the display colors only -
I still want to print black on white.

Please do not refer to the control panel's appearance panel. That does not
do it...changing the application background, for instance, changes the
background of the MDI window but not the document's background. And of
course, this changes it for all applications, which is undesirable.

If Word doesn't do this, we'll probably have to ditch Office for OpenOffice.
In my experience, Microsoft generally is not amenable to feature requests or
only offers them for new products, not as free fixes.

Thanks!

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi Blind ;-)

Word only offers black text on white or white text on blue. The former is
very bad for your eyes if you stare at a terminal all day and the latter is
not much better.

Green or amber text on black is the ideal text for human eyes. How can I
change Microsoft Word to do this? I'm referring to the display colors only -
I still want to print black on white.

Please do not refer to the control panel's appearance panel. That does not
do it...changing the application background, for instance, changes the
background of the MDI window but not the document's background. And of
course, this changes it for all applications, which is undesirable.

Not sure why it would be undesirable, if it's "ideal text for human eyes?"

Here at the moment with Win XP SP2 and Word 2000, I can easily achieve a
non-white background (something which I usually have, since you can spot
problems with "white rectangles" very easily) and a text color of my
choice through -- sorry: Control Panel.

If that doesn't work for you: what versions have you got?

Greetings
Robert