Choose colors used on Web pages
To make Web pages easier to see, you can change the text, background, link and hover colors in Internet Explorer 7.
Mouse actions
Keyboard actions
1
On the Start menu:
- Select Internet Explorer 7.
Display the Start menu by pressing the Windows logo key
[image: Windows logo key]
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- Select Internet Explorer 7 by using the arrow keys, then ENTER.
2
In Internet Explorer 7:
- Select the Tools menu.
- Select Internet Options.
In Internet Explorer 7:
- Select the Tools menu, by pressing ALT+O.
- Select Internet Options by pressing O.
3
On the General tab, select:
On the General tab:
- Select the Colors button by pressing ALT+O.
4
Under Colors:
- Remove the check mark from the Use Windows colors check box.
- Choose a text color by selecting the color box next to Text and then choosing from the available colors.
- Choose a background color by selecting the color box next to Background and then choosing from the available colors.
- Choose a visited link color by selecting the color box next to Visited and then choosing from the available colors.
- Choose an unvisited link color by selecting the color box next to Unvisited and then choosing from the available colors.
Under Colors:
- Remove the check mark from Use Windows colors by pressing ALT+W.
- Choose a text color by selecting the color box next to Text by pressing ALT+T, and then choosing from the available colors by pressing the arrow keys, then ENTER.
- Choose a background color by selecting the color box next to Background by pressing ALT+B, and then choosing from the available colors by pressing the arrow keys, then ENTER.
- Choose a visited link color by selecting the color box next to Visited by pressing ALT+I, and then choosing from the available colors by pressing the arrow keys, then ENTER.
- Choose an unvisited link color by selecting the color box next to Unvisited by pressing ALT+N, and then choosing from the available colors by pressing the arrow keys, then ENTER.
- Choose a hover color by selecting the color box next to Hover by pressing ALT+O, and then choosing from the available colors by pressing the arrow keys, then ENTER.
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To use a color for links you hover over with the mouse,
- Select the Use hover color check box, and then select the color box next to Hover and then choose from the available colors.
To use a color for links you hover over with the mouse,
- Select the Use hover color check box by pressing ALT+H, and then select the color box next to Hover by pressing ALT+O, and then choose from the available colors by pressing the arrow keys, then ENTER.