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Word 97 - font color doesn't display

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by bmckenzie 1 view

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Hi, I'm having a strange problem - when I copy and paste the header of our company letterhead, which is supposed to be in red, it comes out black on my screen. When I go to Format>Font it says that it is in red, but it still doesn't show up in red,even when I do Print Preview. This only recently started happening, and I wonder if there's some setting that inadvertantly got changed. Any ideas?

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by lo

Hi - I had something similar but with Fonts. They showed fine for Excel and other apps but not in Word. Issue turned out to be that MS Word is really helpful and will only show you what / how the document will be displayed with the selected printer.

I had selected a printer that was pretty much black and white, not graphics, no bells, no whistles, etc. and that is what showed in the document. When I selected a more capable printer, MS Word showed fonts and attributes as they were set.
Posted same/similer some time back. Got a reply that they thought I was joking. As I said, MS Word / MS appears to think this is
a Feature. May be a way to override, never looked.

by bmckenzie

The weird thing about what you're saying is that I've been using the same (black and white) printer all along, and this only just started happening! Also, when I select Acrobat Distiller, which does have color capability (obviously), Word still doesn't show the colors. However, I will try installing a color printer driver and switching to it, and see if that works.

And I forgot to mention, the reason I think it's related to copy & paste is that previously created documents in color show upfine, only when I create a new doc and try to copy & paste in color does it not show.

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