Default background colour in text boxes in PowerPoint General Questions    |   |  Help   Search For:     In:   Office   PowerPoint     PowerPoint General Questions              Heather 9/14/2004 10:57 AM PST   Question   Hi! I was wondering if there is a way to change the colour that appears when you highlight text in a text box. Ie. if the font colour was R51 G133 B253 (a medium blue) when you highlight it an awful red colour appears so it is difficult to see the font. Is there anyway to change that red colour? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Heather :)     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           Suvodip Moitra 9/15/2004 5:14 AM PST   Dear User, Hope this link will help you : www.powerpointanswers.com/article1019.html Discuss about colour scheming Suvodip Moitra Heather <Heather@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:9D5B048A-37B0-492C-90F8-0929807C0990@microsoft.com... > Hi! > > I was wondering if there is a way to change the colour that appears when you > highlight text in a text box. Ie. if the font colour was R51 G133 B253 (a > medium blue) when you highlight it an awful red colour appears so it is > difficult to see the font. Is there anyway to change that red colour? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated! > > Heather :)     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           Echo S 9/15/2004 5:11 PM PST   Answer   I don't see the original post, so I'll piggyback on this one. Heather, you cannot change this color. It's an internal PPT thing -- PPT tries to find a color which contrasts between the background and the font color. Sometimes you get weird colors, but at least you get some contrast. This is a new thing in PPT 2002 (aka PPT XP) and 2003. Previous versions didn't give you any highlight at all, so it wasn't unusual to see many people here asking why they couldn't see their text when they'd click in a textbox. (The reason is because their font color and background color were specified as the same color in the color scheme...) -- Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com presenter, PPT Live '04 Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com "Suvodip Moitra" <suvodipmoitra@yahoo.co.in> wrote in message news:um#KX0xmEHA.648@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... > Dear User, > > Hope this link will help you : www.powerpointanswers.com/article1019.html > Discuss about colour scheming > > Suvodip Moitra > > Heather <Heather@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:9D5B048A-37B0-492C-90F8-0929807C0990@microsoft.com... > > Hi! > > > > I was wondering if there is a way to change the colour that appears when > you > > highlight text in a text box. Ie. if the font colour was R51 G133 B253 (a > > medium blue) when you highlight it an awful red colour appears so it is > > difficult to see the font. Is there anyway to change that red colour? > > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated! > > > > Heather :) > >     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top         Return to Microsoft Communities   Notify me of replies