That's good to know, I mean how the problem was solvbed, in case any of us runs across the same thing. I just hope I remember--but if not, I'll ask. :-) Cindy --- Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yesterday I tried doing what you said: selecting > all, changing the background to white and the font > color to black, but the background stayed black, so > I had black on black, which makes it pretty hard to > read (meaning impossible!) I stopped by the office > this afternoon, so I asked Gustavo, who tried > exactly the same thing that you and I did. He was > surprised that it didn't work, but instead of giving > up like I did, he found the "Shading" option. Once > he changed the shading to "No fill", everything was > great - the whole thing became black letters on a > white background, like it should be. So I'm going > to edit Rent and should have it uploaded for admin > approval later this evening. > > Thanks for your suggestion anyway! Carrie > > Jake Brownell <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Carrie, > Have you tried highlighting the afending text > and then changing the text color under Font on the > Format Menu? And then the background color via the > Background option on the Format menu? As well, hese > items are generally on one of the toolbars and I > think, are the letter A with colors/backgrounds > interchanged. > > Let me know how this works. > > Jake > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Carrie Karnos > To: Bookshare Vol Group > Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 9:17 AM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Rent - the good news and > the bad news > > > Hi all, > > The good news is that I FINALLY finished > proofreading RENT (about the musical by Jonathan > Larson). > > The bad news is that a quarter of the pages are > white text on a black background, instead of the > usual black text on a white background. IMHO, it's > harder to read white on black, so I'd like to change > all those pages to black on white. I've searched > Microsoft Word, but I can't figure out how to change > them all, without retyping every word (not a > pleasant option!). Does anyone know the command to > flip the colors around? > > Thanks in advance for your help! Carrie > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > --------------------------------- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.8.0/353 - > Release Date: 5/31/2006 > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.