white text on black background

[William]

Could someone give me a description on how to print white text on black
background with word, if possible for labels for identifying pictures.

 

[Elliott Roper]

Could someone give me a description on how to print white text on black
background with word, if possible for labels for identifying pictures.

Put it in a text box, then fiddle with its properties in the formatting
palette.

If you want to place the text as part of the picture, don't use Word.
It is rather fragile. Something between GraphicConverter and Photoshop
is far more manageable, depending on your budget.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Put it in a text box, then fiddle with its properties in the formatting
palette.

If you don't want to use a text box (which is in the drawing layer and just
an extra layer of trouble), you can simply format the font as white text and
select it, go to Format | Borders and Shading, and set Black Shading. Your
choice, there will be aesthetic as well as functional differences.

You could create a character style to make it easy to apply that formatting.

 

[William]

Thank you. I can accomplish on page (using your instructions), is it
possible to apply to a label or must I use a pair of sissors?

 

[Elliott Roper]

If you don't want to use a text box (which is in the drawing layer and just
an extra layer of trouble), you can simply format the font as white text and
select it, go to Format | Borders and Shading, and set Black Shading. Your
choice, there will be aesthetic as well as functional differences.

You could create a character style to make it easy to apply that formatting.

Thanks Daiya, thanks to that I tried again with shading and got it to
work, sort of like you said.

I fould I could leave the font colour alone and depending what the
shading colour was, the text might go white. Changing the fill type
from clear to 100% seems to darken the background for the whole line.
Worth playing with, and hard to describe. Playing with 100% colour and
fill colour produces interesting and unexpected results. So much so
that it is hard to decide what they meant by those terms.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Whose instructions are you referring to?

What, are you creating sticky labels in Word that then you want to put on
photos?

If you use Tools | Labels to get a page of labels, type your labels as
usual, then select all and apply the white font and black border. You might
want to test how a small sample prints before you do an entire ink-heavy
page on purchased labels.

I don't see where scissors would come into it?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Thanks Daiya, thanks to that I tried again with shading and got it to
work, sort of like you said.

I fould I could leave the font colour alone and depending what the
shading colour was, the text might go white. Changing the fill type
from clear to 100% seems to darken the background for the whole line.
Worth playing with, and hard to describe. Playing with 100% colour and
fill colour produces interesting and unexpected results. So much so
that it is hard to decide what they meant by those terms.

Yeah, I found it was a little weird too--I didn't test actual printing, but
Print Preview came out fine. I haven't spent much time in that dialog.

After some experimentation--easiest is select, apply white font, then apply
black shading. I didn't trust the appearance of white when I hadn't applied
it myself, although I guess that's the point of the Automatic setting for
font color, to adjust for things like that.

I didn't mess with any of the percentages--just applied a black fill. But
yeah, combining Pattern and Fill does seem a bit odd.

The whole line, I thought, is whether Text or Paragraph is selected, either
when you did it or in the dialog. Formatting the paragraph does the entire
line even when part doesn't have text, apparently. Or it can just be
applied to text.

Daiya

 

[Hugh Williamson]

Make sure you have the drawing toolbar open (view>toolbars>drawing)

Select the rectangle tool, fill as much of the page as you need, select
paint bucket and choose black, select text tool from drawing menu, type text
and select text, change to white with "text color" from drawing or top menu.

done

 

[Hugh Williamson]

OK I should have refreshed the page before I replied