Font colors change when saved as earlier version of Word

[Bill Bonetti]

I noticed the following quirky behavior in Word 2008.

1. Create a new blank document.
2. Insert some text, select that text, and set the color to a theme color.
I chose Black from the theme color palette.
3. Save the document as a Word 97-2004 document (.doc)
4. View the file on a Windows machine running Word 2003 and the text you
just entered is now yellow.

Okay, I understand themes aren't supported in earlier versions and
compatibility mode turns off the Theme palette when editing a .doc file, but
theme colors are still visible and can be selected even in compatibility mode
and color problems can continue when new text is added and theme colors are
selected.

Other than never using theme colors, is there any way to avoid this problem?

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Bill:

Are you sure you have really applied all the latest updates?

I have some ownership of the "Baby-poo yellow theme text bug", since I
personally demonstrated it to the Microsoft engineers in the test lab at
Redmond, and it was fixed in a subsequent update (or at least, I thought it
was...)

Cheers

I noticed the following quirky behavior in Word 2008.

1. Create a new blank document.
2. Insert some text, select that text, and set the color to a theme color.
I chose Black from the theme color palette.
3. Save the document as a Word 97-2004 document (.doc)
4. View the file on a Windows machine running Word 2003 and the text you
just entered is now yellow.

Okay, I understand themes aren't supported in earlier versions and
compatibility mode turns off the Theme palette when editing a .doc file, but
theme colors are still visible and can be selected even in compatibility mode
and color problems can continue when new text is added and theme colors are
selected.

Other than never using theme colors, is there any way to avoid this problem?

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[Bill Bonetti]

John,

I do have the latest updates. I have Office set to automatically check for
new updates daily and I also manually checked and it said everything was
current. I guess they didn't apply that "fix" yet.

 

[CyberTaz]

Sounds like my old "Open the font color palette" method might still have a
place in the world

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

 

[Bill Bonetti]

Bob,

What is the "Open the font color palette" method that you mentioned and how
do I do it?