Re: use other color for new text in Word

Subject: Re: use other color for new text in Word
From: Paul DuBois <paul -at- kitebird -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 09:06:51 -0600


> Your intentions are good, but I'd use a different font and/or point size
> instead. The problem with using color is that you always have to
> display and/or print the document on equipment that can reproduce the
> color. Granted, that's less of a problem in this day and age, but it's
> still a complication best avoided. Also, I'd take the extra few seconds
> to make your alternate typeface into a style. It'd make things easier
> for you later, and maybe be beneficial to everyone else.

... like those of us who are color blind and for whom different
colors don't always contrast the same way they do for people with
normal color vision.

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RE: use other color for new text in Word: From: David Downing

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