RE: blue background, white text

Subject: RE: blue background, white text
From: "Nancy Kaminski" <nancy -dot- kaminski -at- spanlink -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 14:53:24 -0500

> --- Sean Hower <hokumhome -at- freehomepage -dot- com> wrote:

> > We recently got Word 2002 and I've been tooling
> > around in the options and such to familiarize myself
> > with it. In the Options screen on the General tab,
> > there's a checkbox to set word to display a doc with
> > white text on a blue background.
> >
> > Aside from personal preference, why would someone
> > want to do this? I guess I'm wondering why this is
> > such an important option that its a checkbox.

Wasn't that a bone thrown to ex-WordPerfect users? I seem to remember
that WP used to come in white-on-blue. This is in the Word 2.0 days.

Nancy Kaminski
nancy -dot- kaminski -at- spanlink -dot- com
who had runins with WordPerfect before it was WYSIWYG and somehow lived
to tell the tale




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