[bksvol-discuss] Re: Rent - the good news and the bad news

  • From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 21:38:50 -0700 (PDT)

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
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