Selecting Text - Color

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Steve Fox

Word X (10.1.4)
OS 10.2.6

Suddenly, Word X changed the default color for selected text from yellow
(orange?) to black, making it hard to read. My OS is set to use yellow
(orange?) as its default.

How do I reset Word to go back to the previous default? I've looked in
vain at the Preferences and Help. No apparent answers there. Anyone
else experience this?
 
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Beth Rosengard

Hi Steve,

This is ringing bells; I just wish I could remember which bells <sigh>.

Anyway, go to Preferences> View. Be sure the setting for Field Shading is
"when selected" (or "never"). Does that fix it?

If not, I think you'll need to test your Normal template and your
Preferences:

1) Quit Word and navigate to your Normal template which should be in
/Applications/Microsoft Office X/Templates/. Rename Normal to something else
(like OldNormal), then relaunch Word. If this fixes the problem but you
have customizations, etc, in OldNormal that you want to maintain, you can
use Organizer to transfer those from OldNormal to the newly-created Normal
template. Then you can trash the old renamed file. To learn how to use
Organizer, see here (use IE not Safari to view this site):
<http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/WordMac/MacWordNormalTemplate.htm>

If this doesn't fix the problem, quit Word again, trash the new Normal and
rename OldNormal back to Normal.

2) To test your Preference files, quit *all* Office Applications.
Navigate to your ~/library/preferences/Microsoft folder. Rename the
Microsoft Component Preferences, Word Settings (10), and Microsoft Office
Settings (10) files. When you restart Word, these files will be recreated.
If all is well, you can trash the old files. You will have to reset some
Preferences and AutoCorrect settings.

If this doesn't help, you can trash the new files and rename the old ones
back.

Hope this helps.


--
Beth Rosengard
Mac MVP

Mac Word FAQ: <http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/WordMac/index.html>
Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>
 

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