Highlight color of text selection

[Luc Benninger]

Hi

I got some word 2004 templates. In all of them the backcolor of a text
selection is always black and the font then turns to white. So, in these
templates Word does not use the system settings for the selection color!
But if I create a new document, the colors are as expected.
Same behavior on different machines.

I know, this is no big problem, but I am wondering what might cause this
strange behavior.

Thanks for any hints
Luc

 

[CyberTaz]

Hello Luc -

Since there seem to be no other takers, I'll venture a guess that the issue
is designed into the templates, themselves. You don't mention their source,
but you might contact them to clarify the issue, as Word doesn't arbitrarily
'pick & choose' when to use system defaults.

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hi Luc:

I suspect this bit of mischief has been caused by specifying a Shading
"colour" of "White" behind the text, instead of "No colour".

Word takes a "Lazy" approach to highlighting: in shaded text it simply
reverses whatever shading colour was there before. So if you have black
text on white shading, Word will highlight in white text on black shading.

If you remove the "White" shading behind the text, Word will then revert to
normal highlighting behaviour.

Cheers

Hi

I got some word 2004 templates. In all of them the backcolor of a text
selection is always black and the font then turns to white. So, in these
templates Word does not use the system settings for the selection color!
But if I create a new document, the colors are as expected.
Same behavior on different machines.

I know, this is no big problem, but I am wondering what might cause this
strange behavior.

Thanks for any hints
Luc

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