see through text

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gily

Does anyone know where the function to make the text fill colour see
through, or clear, or transparent. I have a black text box with three
white letters in it which I want to be clear or have no fill in them so that
I can lay another text box with a painting of different colours
underneath the box with the writing and just highlight the three letters
in colour against the black. I used to do this all of the time on my work
pc there was a tool which I used in the drawing (I think) tool bar but I
have looked in Office v.x Word and can't find it as the recolour palet
does not have this function. Perhaps I am missing it but I would greatly
appreciate it if anyone could offer some assistance in this area.

Thanks again
gily
 
J

JE McGimpsey

gily said:
Does anyone know where the function to make the text fill colour see
through, or clear, or transparent.

Select the Text Box. Choose Format/Text Box. In the Colors and Lines
pane, choose No Fill from the Color dropdown.
 
G

Guest

-----Original Message-----


Select the Text Box. Choose Format/Text Box. In the Colors and Lines
pane, choose No Fill from the Color dropdown.
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Thanks for replying JE McGimpsey, however what you have advised is
to change the fill colour of the text box to no fill. Even so just to make
sure I did what you said and sure enough the fill of the text box had no
fill and the text in the text box remained white. I actually want to
change the text colour in the text box to a no fill but when I go into
format font there are no options to change the colour to no fill and I
don't understant the use of the colour palet that appears. Thanks again
and I hope someone out there knows how to do this.
 
J

JE McGimpsey

I actually want to change the text colour in the text box to a no
fill but when I go into format font there are no options to change
the colour to no fill and I don't understant the use of the colour
palet that appears. Thanks again and I hope someone out there knows
how to do this.

You can select the text, choose Format/Font and select the Hidden
checkbox.
 
R

Roger Morris

JE McGimpsey said:
You can select the text, choose Format/Font and select the Hidden
checkbox.

Did this ever work?

I can't make transparent text in a filled background using this method.

Hidden text seems to remove the text from view completely (and close
surrounding text up) - not make it transparent.
 
J

JE McGimpsey

Did this ever work?

I can't make transparent text in a filled background using this method.

Hidden text seems to remove the text from view completely (and close
surrounding text up) - not make it transparent.

That's true - if all of the text is not hidden, the visible text will
close up.

Looking back at the OP's original problem, that wouldn't have helped,
though. The OP wanted the color of a textbox behind a black textbox
containing the text to show through.

The OP could do this on a PC, but didn't give any details other than it
involved the drawing toolbar, and I've never seen that done, nor can I
reproduce it.

Perhaps someone else has some ideas?
 

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