Word 2003 fill color & make line color blank

[techlady]

Hi everyone,

This just happened to me. Hope someone can help. Everything was fine until last week.

W2k Dell Laptop, MS Office 2003, I highlight a word, click on fill color on drawing taskbar and the boxes are empty -- no colors showing. Same happens under Line Color. Font color ok. I can click on Format/Borders& Shadings/Shadings and click a color and the highlighted words show the color.

I see several complaints in tech areas about this issue but so far no one seems to recognize it or has given an answer to the problem. MS doesn't even mention the issue. Used Detect & Repair, didn't help. I could reinstall?

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Lilliabeth]

MS doesn't mention the issue because there is no issue.

Words do not gave lines or fills, so line and fill colors are unavailable (grayed out). Not sure what it is you want to happen, but I feel the best thing I can recommend is to buy book on using Word.

 

[Lilliabeth]

Select the words you want to affect, and choose Format > Borders and Shading. I hope you will find what you need there.

Fills colors and line colors can, for example, change the colors of a drawn object like a circle or a square. They are not intended to change color of text.

 

[fumei]

Yes, I am not getting what the "issue" is. What are you trying to do here? Text can not be filled with colour. The font colour can be changed - but you know that. Text does not have lines - so obviously line colour does not do anything.

What do you want to happen???

I see several complaints in tech areas about this issue

Could you give references?



Gerry

 

[techlady]

Sorry, never mind. I figured it out. Appreciate responses.

 

[fumei]

Uh...sorry...not good enough. You post something, asking for something. Properly, if you "figured it out", you post what you found as a solution.

This is especially true in this case, as we did not understand what the issue was. The answer could be one of two things.

You did not get the issue correctly. In which case, it would be polite to say so.

You actually DID find a solution. In which case it would be polite to share it with us.

Gerry

 

[techlady]

figured it out as in -- state the issue properly. The words were boxed. Reinstalled and everything is properly in its place.

Thanks for the help. 'nough said.

 

[fumei]

Thank you.

Gerry