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MS Office Forum / Publisher / Web Design / June 2004Hyperlink font colors
I'm creating a web page with Publisher and have multiple hyperlinks within the page within separate text boxes. Some of the text boxes are on dark backgrounds and some on white. I need the hyperlinks to have different font colors for visibility. Publisher appears to force all of the hyperlinks to one color on a page (unlike Word). Is there a fix? While you can change the link colors, it is generally bad design form. It will drive your viitors nuts if you do it too much. Certainly do not use more than one color combo per page (I am not sure Publisher will let you do more than one per document set anyway). For best results stick with the blue / purple scheme if you can, but opinions will differ on this, I am sure. >I'm creating a web page with Publisher and have multiple >hyperlinks within the page within separate text boxes. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >the hyperlinks to one color on a page (unlike Word). Is >there a fix? I agree. Some novice users are so accustomed to looking for the blue hyperlink that they may not recognize it if it's another color.  SignatureJoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] > While you can change the link colors, it is generally bad design form. It > will [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >>the hyperlinks to one color on a page (unlike Word). Is >>there a fix? I am hardly a novice user, but it sure drives me batty. Even worse is the indiscriminate us of colored text that looks like links. For goodness sake, if you are going to use red for your links, don't stick red words all over the place that are not hypertext. It is an amazingly common mistake. But it may just be my curmudgeon nature... >I agree. Some novice users are so accustomed to looking for the blue >hyperlink that they may not recognize it if it's another color. Mine too, but I'm not a curmudgeon. I've been known to be a witch with a capital B though. ;-) SignatureJoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] >I am hardly a novice user, but it sure drives me batty. Even worse is the > indiscriminate us of colored text that looks like links. For goodness [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >>I agree. Some novice users are so accustomed to looking for the blue >>hyperlink that they may not recognize it if it's another color. That I very much doubt. >Mine too, but I'm not a curmudgeon. I've been known to be a witch with a >capital B though. ;-) That's because you don't know me. :-) SignatureJoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] > That I very much doubt. > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >>Mine too, but I'm not a curmudgeon. I've been known to be a witch with a >>capital B though. ;-) Please make note of the design comments posted. As for the Pub functionality, Pub only supports 1 color which can be set under Format, background, Custom. -- David Bartosik - MS MVP for Publisher help: www.davidbartosik.com enter to win Pub 2003: www.davidbartosik.com/giveaway.aspx > I'm creating a web page with Publisher and have multiple > hyperlinks within the page within separate text boxes. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > the hyperlinks to one color on a page (unlike Word). Is > there a fix? David, your multiple file trick does allow different backgrounds and different colors for the links. I had to do it in a couple of places on my site out of necessity. Here, the background emulates a Tektronix technical manual, and precludes the use of the traditional blue / purple combo: http://www.logwell.com/tech/oscilloscopes/index.html (Warning: It will hurt your eyes!). Here it was again necessary to follow the fire and brimstone theme: http://www.logwell.com/tales/menu/index.html I thimp these are the only places we diverge from the traditional blue/purple theme on the website. >Please make note of the design comments posted. >As for the Pub functionality, Pub only supports 1 color which can be set >under Format, background, Custom. true. I didn't want to complicate matters. -- David Bartosik - MS MVP for Publisher help: www.davidbartosik.com enter to win Pub 2003: www.davidbartosik.com/giveaway.aspx > David, your multiple file trick does allow different backgrounds and different > colors for the links. I had to do it in a couple of places on my site out of [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > >As for the Pub functionality, Pub only supports 1 color which can be set > >under Format, background, Custom. I agree with previous comments, but ultimate control should be with the designer. Does anyone know how to have links not be underlined?(if the designer should choose that way) > Please make note of the design comments posted. > As for the Pub functionality, Pub only supports 1 color which can be set [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > the hyperlinks to one color on a page (unlike Word). Is > > there a fix? see my faq page. -- David Bartosik - MS MVP for Publisher help: www.davidbartosik.com enter to win Pub 2003: www.davidbartosik.com/giveaway.aspx > I agree with previous comments, but ultimate control should be with the designer. Does anyone know how to have links not be underlined?(if the designer should choose that way) > > Please make note of the design comments posted. > > As for the Pub functionality, Pub only supports 1 color which can be set [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > > the hyperlinks to one color on a page (unlike Word). Is > > > there a fix?
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