Drawing Toolbar, Fill Effects does not work. MO SBE 2003, Word 20

[PurpleIris]

MO SBE 2003, Word 2003. When using the Drawing Toolbar, specifically Fill
Effects, Line Effects, Shadow, and 3-D Style, the selections are gray shaded
- blank. I know I can get to some of these from Format, but I can't seem to
find anyway to make the icons work properly. Font Color and Highlight icons
work properly. (Text has been selected first.)

The problem appears to be selective, some of the icons (as noted above) work
fine and then others do not. I tried to add the Fill Color icon to the
Standard Toolbar, but it still did not work. It seems to be the icons on the
Drawing Toolbar. (I added Highlight to the Drawing Toolbar and it still
worked fine there.)

Thanks.

 

[garfield-n-odie]

The fill, line, shadow, and 3-D effects only work on autoshapes (circles,
squares, etc.), not on text.

 

[PurpleIris]

Thank you and I am an idiot. New system, things look different. I guess I
always did fill in my tables with Borders and Shading. I just checked the
old system, and it is just my memory that is failing, not MS Word.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you use the Tables and Borders toolbar, the Border Color and Shading
Color buttons use the same button images as the Line Color and Fill Color
buttons on the Drawing toolbar, which I think is inherently confusing.
Another thing that is confusing is that frames require borders (which can be
selective) while text boxes have lines (which have to be on all four sides).