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Subject:Re: blue background, white text From:Sean Brierley <seanb_us -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 26 Aug 2003 12:46:20 -0700 (PDT)
In the good ol' days, all the best word processors
came this way. If you don't think of 45s as music, and
only as firearms, don't worry about it.
Personal preference is the only reason.
Cheers,
Sean
--- Sean Hower <hokumhome -at- freehomepage -dot- com> wrote:
>
>
> Hey guys.
>
> 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.