Cursor Color Options

[Daedal]

I just recently upgraded to Office 2008 from Office 2004. When using Word prior to the upgrade I had selected the option of a blue background with white text. I found that this helped with reading ease and noticed that all text, paragraph markings, and cursors changed to white. Now in Word 2008, the only thing in white is the text. The paragraph markings are a different shade of blue and the cursor is still black which makes it impossible to see. How can I fix this issue?

 

[Phillip Jones]

Go into preferences while in Word2008. Its there White Text with Blue
Background.

I just recently upgraded to Office 2008 from Office 2004. When using
Word prior to the upgrade I had selected the option of a blue background
with white text. I found that this helped with reading ease and noticed
that all text, paragraph markings, and cursors changed to white. Now in
Word 2008, the only thing in white is the text. The paragraph markings
are a different shade of blue and the cursor is still black which makes
it impossible to see. How can I fix this issue?

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[CyberTaz]

You're absolutely right - it's an abominable eyesore. Unfortunately there is
no setting to change the color of the non-printing characters. Perhaps
something in System prefs would have an effect, but other stuff would be
changed as well. I think there was some code floating around for changing
the np characters in earlier versions but even if I'm remembering correctly
it would do no good in 2008 since VBA isn't supported.

I strongly suggest that you use Word's Help> Send Feedback command to lodge
a complaint with MS. I wouldn't expect too much though because that mode is
targeted for extinction - it's already met it's demise in 2007 on the PC...
Perhaps MS did this on purpose to discourage people from using it and will
be less likely to miss it when it's gone Enough feedback may result in
something even more useful, though.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[John McGhie]

Yeah, but Windows has a High Contrast option designed to improve readability
for the visually impaired. It changes the colours of everything for the
whole system.

You can do something similar on the Mac. This information may help:
http://www.apple.com/accessibility/vision/index.html#display

Cheers

You're absolutely right - it's an abominable eyesore. Unfortunately there is
no setting to change the color of the non-printing characters. Perhaps
something in System prefs would have an effect, but other stuff would be
changed as well. I think there was some code floating around for changing
the np characters in earlier versions but even if I'm remembering correctly
it would do no good in 2008 since VBA isn't supported.

I strongly suggest that you use Word's Help> Send Feedback command to lodge
a complaint with MS. I wouldn't expect too much though because that mode is
targeted for extinction - it's already met it's demise in 2007 on the PC...
Perhaps MS did this on purpose to discourage people from using it and will
be less likely to miss it when it's gone Enough feedback may result in
something even more useful, though.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

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