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Microsoft Word 2007 text selection is stuck on black.

September 29th, 2011 - 08:39 am ET by Kevin | Report spam
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So I've had this problem for a while and seen a lot of posts across
the internet about this problem but no solutions. My Word 2007 had the
typical light blue selection for a long time, but out of nowhere it
switched to pure black. Since the selection color is linked to the
windows theme, I tried changing the selection color but that did not
fix it.

I scoured the registry keys for office and nothing really caught my
eye. Since this is a corporate machine, I really don't want to go
through the process of uninstalling and reinstalling just to see if it
fixes it. Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this annoying bug?
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#1 Peter T. Daniels
September 29th, 2011 - 01:11 pm ET | Report spam
I did once find the mechanism for changing "shading" color (IIRC
Windows calls it "highlighting," even though that means something
different in Word); it was somewhere in Windows (not Word) and
affected all programs. But I don't remember where it was, and it was
probably in Vista rather than 7, so this is probably not helpful.

On Sep 29, 8:39 am, Kevin wrote:
So I've had this problem for a while and seen a lot of posts across
the internet about this problem but no solutions. My Word 2007 had the
typical light blue selection for a long time, but out of nowhere it
switched to pure black. Since the selection color is linked to the
windows theme, I tried changing the selection color but that did not
fix it.

I scoured the registry keys for office and nothing really caught my
eye. Since this is a corporate machine, I really don't want to go
through the process of uninstalling and reinstalling just to see if it
fixes it. Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this annoying bug?

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