Print white on black card

[Suzy]

I want to made name cards using black card with white text. How can I do
that in WORD 2003?

 

[Patty Winter]

I want to made name cards using black card with white text. How can I do
that in WORD 2003?

Suzy, do you mean Word 2004? I don't recall there having been a
Macintosh version of Word in 2003.

Anyway, are you printing onto black cardstock, or white? If black,
then you'll need to have the cards printed at a printshop, because
your home printer won't have white ink. You can print white text
on a black background onto white cardstock at home, but unless
you have a really high-quality printer, large blocks of black are
likely to look streaky. So this may be a job for professionals!

But if you want to try it, simply use the Format menu (Borders
and Shading) to add a black fill to each nametag in your template,
then use the Format menu again (Font) to define the font color as
white. If you don't have a template for name tags, it should be
easy to make one, or browse around the Microsoft site.


Patty

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Patty:

No, she probably IS in Word 2003. The give-away is
"(e-mail address removed)". That's the Microsoft Forum Discussions
web server on the PC side (otherwise known as "The Electronic Headless
Chicken").

It attempts to place a user's query into the correct group based on a
content search matching their headline. With the foreseeable random
results. We see quite a lot of them in here (the posts get scattered like
confetti all over the Internet). Chances are, the original poster will have
no idea where to find either her post or the answers!

Your answer is fine for Word 2003, it has the same menu structure as Word
2004.

Cheers

Suzy, do you mean Word 2004? I don't recall there having been a
Macintosh version of Word in 2003.

Anyway, are you printing onto black cardstock, or white? If black,
then you'll need to have the cards printed at a printshop, because
your home printer won't have white ink. You can print white text
on a black background onto white cardstock at home, but unless
you have a really high-quality printer, large blocks of black are
likely to look streaky. So this may be a job for professionals!

But if you want to try it, simply use the Format menu (Borders
and Shading) to add a black fill to each nametag in your template,
then use the Format menu again (Font) to define the font color as
white. If you don't have a template for name tags, it should be
easy to make one, or browse around the Microsoft site.


Patty

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