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Can I run Word 2003 with Office 2007?
The deletion of the blue background/white text option in Word 2007 is sending
me back to Word 2003. Can I uninstall Word 2007 and re-install Word 2003 while retaining the rest of Office 2007? And if so, can you tell me how? Many thanks for whatever suggestions anyone may have, DCH |
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Can I run Word 2003 with Office 2007?
You REALLY should MOVE on - the same way research does!
Regardless you can run both versions 2003/2007 - you can make 2003 the default Word program to open also. "DCH" wrote in message ... The deletion of the blue background/white text option in Word 2007 is sending me back to Word 2003. Can I uninstall Word 2007 and re-install Word 2003 while retaining the rest of Office 2007? And if so, can you tell me how? Many thanks for whatever suggestions anyone may have, DCH |
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Can I run Word 2003 with Office 2007?
See http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm which explains how to
configure Windows to allow both to work at the same time. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org DCH wrote: The deletion of the blue background/white text option in Word 2007 is sending me back to Word 2003. Can I uninstall Word 2007 and re-install Word 2003 while retaining the rest of Office 2007? And if so, can you tell me how? Many thanks for whatever suggestions anyone may have, DCH |
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Can I run Word 2003 with Office 2007?
Regarding "You REALLY should MOVE on..." This is the second such reply I've
received (the first to a similar question). Let me just say that not every one enjoys the healthy eyesight you obviously enjoy. -- DCH "Summer" wrote: You REALLY should MOVE on - the same way research does! Regardless you can run both versions 2003/2007 - you can make 2003 the default Word program to open also. "DCH" wrote in message ... The deletion of the blue background/white text option in Word 2007 is sending me back to Word 2003. Can I uninstall Word 2007 and re-install Word 2003 while retaining the rest of Office 2007? And if so, can you tell me how? Many thanks for whatever suggestions anyone may have, DCH |
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Can I run Word 2003 with Office 2007?
There is a way to get white text on a blue background in Word 2007 by using
the following recipe: 1. In the Page Backround group of the Page Layout tab, click Page Color and select a shade of blue - this is the blue background. 2. Type a line of text and then place the insertion point inside a word of text. 3. Right click on the selected text and choose Font from the menu. 4. On the Font dialog box select white in the Font Color drop down list box. The word containing the insertion point will turn white. 5. Without moving the insertion point, right click again and choose Styles from the context menu. This displays a submenu. 6. From the submenu choose Save Selection As A New Quick Style. This displays the Create New Style From Formatting dialog box. 7. In the Create New Style From Formatting dialog box, enter the name of the Style. If you used say, the "Heading 1" style for the text, then you might want to call it "White Font Heading 1". You can alter steps 6 and 7 to change the existing style to have white font - choose Update Heading 1 To Match Selection in step 6. You can see there is a bit of tedium initially: for every style of font you use, at the beginning you will need to create a white font version of it or change it to use white font. However, most documents aren't likely to use a huge number of styles and over time you'll have a big collection which you can store in your normal template file. In fact, a good start might be to edit the normal template file and simply change all the styles to use white font. Perhaps some other folks here can suggest ways to reduce the initial tedium by utilizing themes or some other technique. Some time ago, I believe Word took it's cue from the setting of the system colors for window and window text. Whether that's true now in 2007 with themes I don't know. One of the major goals behind the implementation of system color and font settings was to help people with less than optimal vision to use Windows. This would be worth exploring if the above approach is unsuitable or excessively tedious. E McElroy The deletion of the blue background/white text option in Word 2007 is sending me back to Word 2003. Can I uninstall Word 2007 and re-install Word 2003 while retaining the rest of Office 2007? And if so, can you tell me how? Many thanks for whatever suggestions anyone may have, DCH |
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It occurred to me that one way to reduce the tedium to almost nothing is to
code a macro which will enumerate the document styles, obtain the Font object from each, and set the font color to white. That would mean a very simple document creation process consisting of selecting a template, changing the background color on the Page Layout tab to blue, and running the macro to change the fonts to white. This may have an effect on the use of themes but given the very specific color combination which you want, you may not care. As a long-time C/C++/C# person (too long!) I don't do VBA but it might be an interesting little project that shouldn't take a VBA person too long. Perhaps one of the forum's heavyweights can code one up for you - Beth, Graham, Herb, and others...any volunteers? E McElroy "DCH" wrote: The deletion of the blue background/white text option in Word 2007 is sending me back to Word 2003. Can I uninstall Word 2007 and re-install Word 2003 while retaining the rest of Office 2007? And if so, can you tell me how? Many thanks for whatever suggestions anyone may have, DCH |
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Can I run Word 2003 with Office 2007?
Thank you thank you for taking the time to explain all this, McElroy. Some
of it is over my head but I have worked out a partial (though not very elegant) solution: I put the "Page Background" icon on the Quick Access Toolbar. Creating a new document, I click on the Page Background icon and choose dark blue and the text automatically comes up white. Perfect. It requires three clicks to get a new blue-background/white text page for every new document but I can live with that. The major problem is that "found" text (text found by the "Find and Replace" function) is highlighted in either dark gray or black, which is almost impossible to find against the dark blue background. If "found" text were highlighted in almost any other color, such that I could see it against the blue background, I would be a happy man ("over the moon" as my daughter says). Is it possible to change the color of "found" text? Thank you again for your time and help McElroy. DCH "E McElroy" wrote: There is a way to get white text on a blue background in Word 2007 by using the following recipe: 1. In the Page Backround group of the Page Layout tab, click Page Color and select a shade of blue - this is the blue background. 2. Type a line of text and then place the insertion point inside a word of text. 3. Right click on the selected text and choose Font from the menu. 4. On the Font dialog box select white in the Font Color drop down list box. The word containing the insertion point will turn white. 5. Without moving the insertion point, right click again and choose Styles from the context menu. This displays a submenu. 6. From the submenu choose Save Selection As A New Quick Style. This displays the Create New Style From Formatting dialog box. 7. In the Create New Style From Formatting dialog box, enter the name of the Style. If you used say, the "Heading 1" style for the text, then you might want to call it "White Font Heading 1". You can alter steps 6 and 7 to change the existing style to have white font - choose Update Heading 1 To Match Selection in step 6. You can see there is a bit of tedium initially: for every style of font you use, at the beginning you will need to create a white font version of it or change it to use white font. However, most documents aren't likely to use a huge number of styles and over time you'll have a big collection which you can store in your normal template file. In fact, a good start might be to edit the normal template file and simply change all the styles to use white font. Perhaps some other folks here can suggest ways to reduce the initial tedium by utilizing themes or some other technique. Some time ago, I believe Word took it's cue from the setting of the system colors for window and window text. Whether that's true now in 2007 with themes I don't know. One of the major goals behind the implementation of system color and font settings was to help people with less than optimal vision to use Windows. This would be worth exploring if the above approach is unsuitable or excessively tedious. E McElroy The deletion of the blue background/white text option in Word 2007 is sending me back to Word 2003. Can I uninstall Word 2007 and re-install Word 2003 while retaining the rest of Office 2007? And if so, can you tell me how? Many thanks for whatever suggestions anyone may have, DCH |
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Have you tried printing a document with these formatting suggestions?
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org DCH wrote: Thank you thank you for taking the time to explain all this, McElroy. Some of it is over my head but I have worked out a partial (though not very elegant) solution: I put the "Page Background" icon on the Quick Access Toolbar. Creating a new document, I click on the Page Background icon and choose dark blue and the text automatically comes up white. Perfect. It requires three clicks to get a new blue-background/white text page for every new document but I can live with that. The major problem is that "found" text (text found by the "Find and Replace" function) is highlighted in either dark gray or black, which is almost impossible to find against the dark blue background. If "found" text were highlighted in almost any other color, such that I could see it against the blue background, I would be a happy man ("over the moon" as my daughter says). Is it possible to change the color of "found" text? Thank you again for your time and help McElroy. DCH "E McElroy" wrote: There is a way to get white text on a blue background in Word 2007 by using the following recipe: 1. In the Page Backround group of the Page Layout tab, click Page Color and select a shade of blue - this is the blue background. 2. Type a line of text and then place the insertion point inside a word of text. 3. Right click on the selected text and choose Font from the menu. 4. On the Font dialog box select white in the Font Color drop down list box. The word containing the insertion point will turn white. 5. Without moving the insertion point, right click again and choose Styles from the context menu. This displays a submenu. 6. From the submenu choose Save Selection As A New Quick Style. This displays the Create New Style From Formatting dialog box. 7. In the Create New Style From Formatting dialog box, enter the name of the Style. If you used say, the "Heading 1" style for the text, then you might want to call it "White Font Heading 1". You can alter steps 6 and 7 to change the existing style to have white font - choose Update Heading 1 To Match Selection in step 6. You can see there is a bit of tedium initially: for every style of font you use, at the beginning you will need to create a white font version of it or change it to use white font. However, most documents aren't likely to use a huge number of styles and over time you'll have a big collection which you can store in your normal template file. In fact, a good start might be to edit the normal template file and simply change all the styles to use white font. Perhaps some other folks here can suggest ways to reduce the initial tedium by utilizing themes or some other technique. Some time ago, I believe Word took it's cue from the setting of the system colors for window and window text. Whether that's true now in 2007 with themes I don't know. One of the major goals behind the implementation of system color and font settings was to help people with less than optimal vision to use Windows. This would be worth exploring if the above approach is unsuitable or excessively tedious. E McElroy The deletion of the blue background/white text option in Word 2007 is sending me back to Word 2003. Can I uninstall Word 2007 and re-install Word 2003 while retaining the rest of Office 2007? And if so, can you tell me how? Many thanks for whatever suggestions anyone may have, DCH |
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It sounds like you're very close to what you want except for the highlighting
problem. I had a chance to look at the possible solution of changing system colors which I mentioned in a previous note. Restating the current difficulty is probably a good way to start: Problem: ====== When the page background is blue, the gray selection or highlight rectangle is difficult to see. Changing the System Colors (XP Pro OS): =========================== The system colors are settable to reflect individual preferences and to help people with vision difficulties; at least that was the intent. I set two system colors using the Control Panel which allows changes to a subset of the settable colors: windows and window text were set to blue and white, respectively. Word 2007 does pay attention to the system colors: default page backgrounds were now a deep blue and the default font was white. However, the default color of other style fonts was not white: on my machine, the Heading 1 font was red. So, while Word is making some adjustments to reflect the system colors, the result may not be what you want without further changes to font colors. Additionally, there was no effect on the selection problem: selections were still highlighted by putting the selection inside a gray box which is not easy to see on a blue page. Changing the system colors had other side effects, including some very interesting ones: looking at Outlook and Internet Explorer, it's obvious that some programmers were checking the system colors and others were not. The Dates Received column, for instance, is pure white in Outlook while the lettering in other areas remains black. Internet Explorer did the right thing in some ways: a successful find encloses the located word in a white selection box which stands out nicely on a blue field but other areas were improperly colored. I could go on but it's clear that current software offerings from MS are not being sufficiently tested to see if they gracefully handle changes in the system colors so this may not be a good solution for you overall. Programming: ========= I did a quick look around at some of the Word objects and didn't see any obvious way to tell Word how to display a selected or highlighted area. The problem is not a simple one in the general case since color backgrounds can vary quite a bit in different sections of a document. In your case, however, the background and the font colors seem to be constant so a programming solution might be possible if Word or Office doesn't provide a simpler way. I'll take a further look to get a better handle on the problem and will get back to you. Ed McElroy "DCH" wrote: Thank you thank you for taking the time to explain all this, McElroy. Some of it is over my head but I have worked out a partial (though not very elegant) solution: I put the "Page Background" icon on the Quick Access Toolbar. Creating a new document, I click on the Page Background icon and choose dark blue and the text automatically comes up white. Perfect. It requires three clicks to get a new blue-background/white text page for every new document but I can live with that. The major problem is that "found" text (text found by the "Find and Replace" function) is highlighted in either dark gray or black, which is almost impossible to find against the dark blue background. If "found" text were highlighted in almost any other color, such that I could see it against the blue background, I would be a happy man ("over the moon" as my daughter says). Is it possible to change the color of "found" text? Thank you again for your time and help McElroy. DCH "E McElroy" wrote: There is a way to get white text on a blue background in Word 2007 by using the following recipe: 1. In the Page Backround group of the Page Layout tab, click Page Color and select a shade of blue - this is the blue background. 2. Type a line of text and then place the insertion point inside a word of text. 3. Right click on the selected text and choose Font from the menu. 4. On the Font dialog box select white in the Font Color drop down list box. The word containing the insertion point will turn white. 5. Without moving the insertion point, right click again and choose Styles from the context menu. This displays a submenu. 6. From the submenu choose Save Selection As A New Quick Style. This displays the Create New Style From Formatting dialog box. 7. In the Create New Style From Formatting dialog box, enter the name of the Style. If you used say, the "Heading 1" style for the text, then you might want to call it "White Font Heading 1". You can alter steps 6 and 7 to change the existing style to have white font - choose Update Heading 1 To Match Selection in step 6. You can see there is a bit of tedium initially: for every style of font you use, at the beginning you will need to create a white font version of it or change it to use white font. However, most documents aren't likely to use a huge number of styles and over time you'll have a big collection which you can store in your normal template file. In fact, a good start might be to edit the normal template file and simply change all the styles to use white font. Perhaps some other folks here can suggest ways to reduce the initial tedium by utilizing themes or some other technique. Some time ago, I believe Word took it's cue from the setting of the system colors for window and window text. Whether that's true now in 2007 with themes I don't know. One of the major goals behind the implementation of system color and font settings was to help people with less than optimal vision to use Windows. This would be worth exploring if the above approach is unsuitable or excessively tedious. E McElroy The deletion of the blue background/white text option in Word 2007 is sending me back to Word 2003. Can I uninstall Word 2007 and re-install Word 2003 while retaining the rest of Office 2007? And if so, can you tell me how? Many thanks for whatever suggestions anyone may have, DCH |
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When I do a print preview, I get a white sheet which indicates that the white
font is being preserved but not the blue background. Since I do mostly programming, I don't have a color printer so I was uncertain whether this was a limitation caused by my printer. Since you brought this up, however, I would guess that you must be seeing a similar result on your print preview. Well, it's easy enough to check for someone with a color printer but whether the blue background is preserved or not, my guess is that it's more economical to purchase blue paper than to color white sheets blue with a printer. E McElroy "Graham Mayor" wrote: Have you tried printing a document with these formatting suggestions? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org DCH wrote: Thank you thank you for taking the time to explain all this, McElroy. Some of it is over my head but I have worked out a partial (though not very elegant) solution: I put the "Page Background" icon on the Quick Access Toolbar. Creating a new document, I click on the Page Background icon and choose dark blue and the text automatically comes up white. Perfect. It requires three clicks to get a new blue-background/white text page for every new document but I can live with that. The major problem is that "found" text (text found by the "Find and Replace" function) is highlighted in either dark gray or black, which is almost impossible to find against the dark blue background. If "found" text were highlighted in almost any other color, such that I could see it against the blue background, I would be a happy man ("over the moon" as my daughter says). Is it possible to change the color of "found" text? Thank you again for your time and help McElroy. DCH "E McElroy" wrote: There is a way to get white text on a blue background in Word 2007 by using the following recipe: 1. In the Page Backround group of the Page Layout tab, click Page Color and select a shade of blue - this is the blue background. 2. Type a line of text and then place the insertion point inside a word of text. 3. Right click on the selected text and choose Font from the menu. 4. On the Font dialog box select white in the Font Color drop down list box. The word containing the insertion point will turn white. 5. Without moving the insertion point, right click again and choose Styles from the context menu. This displays a submenu. 6. From the submenu choose Save Selection As A New Quick Style. This displays the Create New Style From Formatting dialog box. 7. In the Create New Style From Formatting dialog box, enter the name of the Style. If you used say, the "Heading 1" style for the text, then you might want to call it "White Font Heading 1". You can alter steps 6 and 7 to change the existing style to have white font - choose Update Heading 1 To Match Selection in step 6. You can see there is a bit of tedium initially: for every style of font you use, at the beginning you will need to create a white font version of it or change it to use white font. However, most documents aren't likely to use a huge number of styles and over time you'll have a big collection which you can store in your normal template file. In fact, a good start might be to edit the normal template file and simply change all the styles to use white font. Perhaps some other folks here can suggest ways to reduce the initial tedium by utilizing themes or some other technique. Some time ago, I believe Word took it's cue from the setting of the system colors for window and window text. Whether that's true now in 2007 with themes I don't know. One of the major goals behind the implementation of system color and font settings was to help people with less than optimal vision to use Windows. This would be worth exploring if the above approach is unsuitable or excessively tedious. E McElroy The deletion of the blue background/white text option in Word 2007 is sending me back to Word 2003. Can I uninstall Word 2007 and re-install Word 2003 while retaining the rest of Office 2007? And if so, can you tell me how? Many thanks for whatever suggestions anyone may have, DCH |
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