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Judy Port wants to change the text color in desktop icon captions.
In Microsoft Word, you can apply a background color to an entire table or even just to specific portions of a table.This is helpful when you want to highlight a portion of a table. For example, if you’re working with sales figures, you may want to apply a different color to a column, row, or cell that contains totals. It IS possible to remove in MS Word. Just select the mentioned text with the mouse, go to 'Format.Borders and Shading.Shading'. There select 'No Fill' and the the Highlighting will go away.
Microsoft doesn't provide that option, but there's a trick to turning the default white text to black. You can also turn off the drop shadows.
Change Text Color In Text Box Adobe Acrobat
In fact, you have to turn off the drop shadows before you can change the color: Select Start, then Run, type sysdm.cpl, and press ENTER. Click the Advanced tab. In the Performance box, click the Settings button. Scroll down to and uncheck Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop. Click OK for each box.
Now that the drop shadows are gone, you can turn the letters black by selecting a light background color. If you're saying 'What background color? I have wallpaper!' don't worry. There's a background color behind your wallpaper (or desktop background in Vista); you don't see it, but it effects the color of your text.
To change this color in Vista, right-click the desktop and select Personalize. Click Desktop Background. Pull down the Location menu and select Solid Colors. Click the white square (if you want white text, pick the black square). Don't worry if the desktop suddenly turns ugly. You're about to fix that.
Now return to the Location menu and select the location where you'd find your wallpaper. Select the wallpaper, then click OK.
Although the same principles apply in XP, there's one big difference. Once you turn off the drop shadows, potentially ugly boxes appear around the captions. If you pick white as your background color (like I recommended with Vista), they look particularly ugly. Choosing the right background color will improve the look of the desktop..
Right-click the desktop and select Properties. Click the Desktop tab. Pull down the Color menu in the lower right corner and select a background color. Pick one that blends in well with your wallpaper, but if you want black text, it must be a light color. Click Apply to see how it looks.
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Normally, the background of a Word document in Office 2011 for Mac is white, but you can change the background color — and even apply document theme colors to it. You have to use Print Layout view in Word 2011 for Mac for this to work, so if you’re not already in Print Layout view, click the Print Layout view button at the lower-left corner of the document window to switch to it.
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When you modify the background in Print Layout view, Word 2011 for Mac can convert it into Notebook Layout view and Publishing Layout view. Three formatting tools are in the Page Background group of the Ribbon’s Layout tab:
- Color: Click to display the color palette. Color formats the background layer that’s furthest to the back.
- Watermark: Above the background layer but still behind the text layer is a layer that you can use if you want to add a watermark. You can choose from two watermark types, Picture and Text.
- Borders: Displays the Page Border tab of the Borders and Shadings dialog. This dialog is a creative person’s playground for customizing borders.
- Setting: Choose from None, Box, Shadow, 3-D, or Custom.
- Custom: Use the Interactive Preview to choose which edge(s) to apply or remove a border.
- Style: Choose a line style for your border.
- Color: Choose a color for your border.
- Width: Specify a width for your border.
- Art: Choose from an enormous variety of artwork.
- Apply To: Choose Whole Document or a section option.
- Options: Displays the Border and Shading options dialog that lets you adjust margin and placement of your border.
- Horizontal Line: Displays an Open dialog that lets you choose a picture of a line to use as your border’s line style.