Change display (but not print) font color and background?

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Dave - 26 May 2004 05:02 GMT

Hello,

I use Word for hours on end. Not a lot of formatting,
pretty much just pages and pages of double spaced Courier.
The black on white display kills me after a while, so I
usually use the white text, blue background option.

I downloaded and tried OpenOffice.org and I just don't like
Writer as much as I like Word. The UI sucks, it's buggy
(auto-save prompts you, and other small annoyances) and I'd
rather just stick to Word. However, in OpenOffice.org, I
was able to change to a green font, black background. Much
better on my eyes, and now I do not want to go back.

Is there any way I can get Word to do the same? I set the
page background to black, set the font to green, but when I
go to print the font comes out in some awful halftone. I
don't see any option in my printer setup to make it just
substitute black for the color.

Thanks,
Dave

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 26 May 2004 16:26 GMT

Hi Dave,

> I downloaded and tried OpenOffice.org and I just don't like
> Writer as much as I like Word. The UI sucks, it's buggy
> (auto-save prompts you, and other small annoyances) and I'd
> rather just stick to Word. However, in OpenOffice.org, I
> was able to change to a green font, black background. Much
> better on my eyes, and now I do not want to go back.

Have you tried going into the Windows display options and
changing the settings for "Window" and "Window text"? I
almost always choose an off-white or eggshell color for
Windows, instead of "killer white".

> Is there any way I can get Word to do the same? I set the
> page background to black, set the font to green, but when I
> go to print the font comes out in some awful halftone. I
> don't see any option in my printer setup to make it just
> substitute black for the color.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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Charles Kenyon - 26 May 2004 19:56 GMT

You can get the blue screen, white text from DOS as a Word option.
Otherwise you need to change the display settings in Windows (for all of
your programs). I use a robin's-egg blue background because it is easier on
my eyes than is white.

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Dave - 26 May 2004 21:23 GMT

Yes, I've done those before. Unfortunately I am so fussy
I just want the color change in Word when I am working on
a document.

Oh well. I was hoping there was a configuration file
somewhere I could mess with to change the colors in
the "blue screen, white text" mode.

Thanks,
Dave

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Greg - 27 May 2004 12:42 GMT

Dave,

You could set up another windows profile with customized
display options and log in with that profile at the
beginning of an hours on end session ;-)

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