My Microsoft Word text is not Black
October 7th, 2006 
posted by Loz
Question
In my Microsoft Word, the default automatic font colour was changed from Black to Blue. How do I change it back to Black?
Answer
Generall text gets its colour from your system’s colour scheme or desktop theme. Most likely, you may of happen come across a nice looking theme to use and chose to install it on your PC System, without really realising the full extent of the changes it makes globally throughout the workings of application runs.
The changes however do not affect your printed documents, they always default to Black unless otherwise chosen by the user - and of course if you’re using a colour printer, otherwise black text is the only thing you’re going to see. lol
Right click on the Desktop, choose Properties, and click the Appearance tab. If you’re using Mircosoft Windows XP, click the Advanced button. There’s a list of items shown; scroll down to the one named Window at the bottom and select it. You’ll see two coloured boxes shown. The upper one is the default window background colour and the lower one is the default text colour. Just click the lower coloured box and choose Black. Now click OK and, if you’re using Windows XP, click OK again to accept the change. Now it’s all fixed!
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