Heading Row Color

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Dave_M

Has anyone done a usability study on the color of a heading row?
(Black with white text vs. Gray with black text - which is preferred?
Either one looks ok on the screen, but gray has problems when photocopying
Any comments?
 
S

screaming_banjo

As far as I'm aware in terms of colour, lighter text on darke
backgrounds is preferred, therefore, white on black text would b
best.

That said, I'm personally rather conventional and would stick to blac
text, white page!! Maybe Font size 22 for a black title...that's abou
as exotic as I'd go
 
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Dave_M

I was looking for some support on creating tables in word that have the heading row (only) shaded black and the text in the heading row be white.
 
M

Margaret Aldis

In Word 2002 and above, you can use a table style to set shading and font
colour for the heading row.

Before that, if you want to automate you'll either need to record a macro to
do the formatting, or save a sample table as AutoText and create new tables
using that as a starting point.

--
Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP
Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk



Dave_M said:
I was looking for some support on creating tables in word that have the
heading row (only) shaded black and the text in the heading row be white.
 
B

Bob S

Has anyone done a usability study on the color of a heading row?
(Black with white text vs. Gray with black text - which is preferred?)
Either one looks ok on the screen, but gray has problems when photocopying.
Any comments?

Avoid shading. Usability is poor. There are several problems.

First, digital printers don't print gray, they print a pattern of
black dots on a white background. When you add this to text, the dots
from the "gray" break up the outlines of the letters, making them
harder to read.

Second, using a gray background means lower contrast. Lower contrast
is less legible.

Third, it is difficult to get a satisfactory shading percentage.
Different printers can have very different ideas about what "10%"
shading is. Even if you like the results from one printer, the output
from the next one may be too dark, or even invisibly light.

If you want to make the heading row different, use a different font,
or different size, or any of the other conventional schemes.

Bob S
 

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