"Automatic" font color somehow green!   

Hi,

I noticed I was getting green bullets, even though the bullet text was 
black. I checked the style for the bullet, and it was based on "Normal", and 
the font color for the bullet was set to "Automatic."

Finally I just typed Normal text, and it was green, too! I just went to the 
Normal style, and it shows it set to "Automatic" (i.e., black), yet it  comes 
out green!  Has something got corrupted?

Mark H.
-- 
Science-based nutrition!  See TIOEnterprises.net

date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 08:08:01 -0700   author:   Mark Hilbrink

Re: "Automatic" font color somehow green!   

For diagnostic purposes, set the default to black rather than Automatic. 
Restart.

Are you referring to the screen display or printed output?
-- 

Tom
MSMVP 1998-2007


"Mark Hilbrink"  wrote in message 
news:27FF6D78-B2AF-410D-B175-69A68C665127@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I noticed I was getting green bullets, even though the bullet text was
> black. I checked the style for the bullet, and it was based on "Normal", 
> and
> the font color for the bullet was set to "Automatic."
>
> Finally I just typed Normal text, and it was green, too! I just went to 
> the
> Normal style, and it shows it set to "Automatic" (i.e., black), yet it 
> comes
> out green!  Has something got corrupted?
>
> Mark H.
> -- 
> Science-based nutrition!  See TIOEnterprises.net

date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 12:24:41 -0300   author:   Tom Ferguson

Re: "Automatic" font color somehow green!   

Actually I was referring to screen color, not printing, but this thread 
seemed like the right one to post my question. Is there much of a difference?

Well (of course!), since doing something else for awhile (what I did was set 
my "List Bullets" to be based on the previous one, instead of Normal), NOW 
the colors are somehow all fine!  I don't see how changing LATER (lower) 
versions of List Bullets would restore the bullet color (and Normal) to 
black...?
-- 
Science-based nutrition!  See TIOEnterprises.net


"Tom Ferguson" wrote:

> For diagnostic purposes, set the default to black rather than Automatic. 
> Restart.
> 
> Are you referring to the screen display or printed output?
> -- 
> 
> Tom
> MSMVP 1998-2007
> 
> 
> "Mark Hilbrink"  wrote in message 
> news:27FF6D78-B2AF-410D-B175-69A68C665127@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I noticed I was getting green bullets, even though the bullet text was
> > black. I checked the style for the bullet, and it was based on "Normal", 
> > and
> > the font color for the bullet was set to "Automatic."
> >
> > Finally I just typed Normal text, and it was green, too! I just went to 
> > the
> > Normal style, and it shows it set to "Automatic" (i.e., black), yet it 
> > comes
> > out green!  Has something got corrupted?
> >
> > Mark H.
> > -- 
> > Science-based nutrition!  See TIOEnterprises.net 
> 
>

date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 08:40:01 -0700   author:   Mark Hilbrink

Re: "Automatic" font color somehow green!   

If you had been talking about printing, it might have meant something
as simple as that your black ink was empty.

On Jul 7, 11:40 am, Mark Hilbrink  wrote:
> Actually I was referring to screen color, not printing, but this thread
> seemed like the right one to post my question. Is there much of a difference?
>
> Well (of course!), since doing something else for awhile (what I did was set
> my "List Bullets" to be based on the previous one, instead of Normal), NOW
> the colors are somehow all fine!  I don't see how changing LATER (lower> versions of List Bullets would restore the bullet color (and Normal) to
> black...?
> --
> Science-based nutrition!  See TIOEnterprises.net
>
>
>
> "Tom Ferguson" wrote:
> > For diagnostic purposes, set the default to black rather than Automatic> > Restart.
>
> > Are you referring to the screen display or printed output?
> > --
>
> > Tom
> > MSMVP 1998-2007
>
> > "Mark Hilbrink"  wrote in message
> >news:27FF6D78-B2AF-410D-B175-69A68C665127@microsoft.com...
> > > Hi,
>
> > > I noticed I was getting green bullets, even though the bullet text was
> > > black. I checked the style for the bullet, and it was based on "Normal",
> > > and
> > > the font color for the bullet was set to "Automatic."
>
> > > Finally I just typed Normal text, and it was green, too! I just went to
> > > the
> > > Normal style, and it shows it set to "Automatic" (i.e., black), yet it
> > > comes
> > > out green!  Has something got corrupted?

date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 09:25:29 -0700 (PDT)   author:   grammatim

Re: "Automatic" font color somehow green!   

"Mark Hilbrink"  wrote in message 
news:729CD7A3-BD49-45AD-9B9E-7C74DBD63FAE@microsoft.com...
> Actually I was referring to screen color, not printing, but this thread
> seemed like the right one to post my question. Is there much of a 
> difference?

There are settings under printers and display options, e.g. ICC profile 
settings,  that affect the way colours render to the screen. There are 
settings in Word that affect screen display colour and colours for fonts, 
and other display elements. Depending on printer and available settings in 
the driver, colours might differ between display and printed output.

In any event, glad you found what was causing the unexpected behaviour and 
were able to change it to wat you expected.
-- 

Tom
MSMVP 1998-2007




>
> Well (of course!), since doing something else for awhile (what I did was 
> set
> my "List Bullets" to be based on the previous one, instead of Normal), NOW
> the colors are somehow all fine!  I don't see how changing LATER (lower)
> versions of List Bullets would restore the bullet color (and Normal) to
> black...?
> -- 
> Science-based nutrition!  See TIOEnterprises.net
>
>
> "Tom Ferguson" wrote:
>
>> For diagnostic purposes, set the default to black rather than Automatic.
>> Restart.
>>
>> Are you referring to the screen display or printed output?
>> -- 
>>
>> Tom
>> MSMVP 1998-2007
>>
>>
>> "Mark Hilbrink"  wrote in message
>> news:27FF6D78-B2AF-410D-B175-69A68C665127@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I noticed I was getting green bullets, even though the bullet text was
>> > black. I checked the style for the bullet, and it was based on 
>> > "Normal",
>> > and
>> > the font color for the bullet was set to "Automatic."
>> >
>> > Finally I just typed Normal text, and it was green, too! I just went to
>> > the
>> > Normal style, and it shows it set to "Automatic" (i.e., black), yet it
>> > comes
>> > out green!  Has something got corrupted?
>> >
>> > Mark H.
>> > -- 
>> > Science-based nutrition!  See TIOEnterprises.net
>>
>>

date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 01:52:23 -0300   author:   Tom Ferguson