I have un-installed Office 2007 and gone back to 2003 as it seems far superior in many ways. I cannot remember the 2007 command you require is but you can in any case get a similar result by loading the high contrast white on black display theme under display properties. You can set up a shortcut access to high contrast properties under the accessibility wizard in control panel. I prefer not to do so because unamended high contrast does not work well with Jaws. This was a problem for me as the default colurs provided too much glare for me.
I use a method which allows more flexibility in allocating colours which may be also what you want . The following step assumes that you or someone helping you has some sight. I had to use my daughter to help me. The first thing to do is save your current theme as something like original.theme. In Display properties. Save this in a place where you can easily execute it like your desktop or in your start menu. The mext thing to do is to load the default high contrast theme. Now go to the appearances tab under display properties. This is where you will possibley need some sighted help. Basically you need to replace every element of the theme which is currently coloured blac with different shades of blue. If you change windows background colour here to the appropriate blue you will reproduce the effect that used to be available in Word. I actually use a dark blue which for my eyes is indistinguishable from black. You can also change the font colour to yellow if necessary for your sight. You can then save this as another theme. I called mine Jaws colours. Again save this where you saved your original thene for ease of changing colours on your system. I now use a high contrast system developed in this way which works perfectly with Jaws. Pressing enter on the original or jaws colurs theme files and pressing enter again when display properties come up whill instantly change colours on your system I have got rather a heavy cold whilst typing this so I hope that these instructions are clear. If it it all seems too complicated you could email me off list and I could send a copy of my jaws colours theme which yu could try out. Its also available on my web site below. Regards David Griffith My Low Vision Resources Web Site is http://www.nonags.org/members/dajgriff/ -----Original Message----- From: blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Steve & Shannon Cook Sent: Thursday, 09 April 2009 23:38 To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: [Blind-Computing] Background Color In Word 07 I know in previous versions of Word you could change the back ground color to blue for people with low vision to be able to see the screen better and to use to see the formatting. how can you change the back ground color in word o7 to blue for the same purpose. Thanks in advance for your help! Steve & Shannon Windows Live Messenger: stc...@sccb.sc.gov Today I married my best friend. The one that I laugh with, live for, love. October 11, 2003 You have to change with the change or be destroyed by the change. Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to blind-computing-le...@jaws-users.com For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: blind-computing-requ...@jaws-users.com Use the following address in order to contact the management team blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: jaws-users-list-j...@jaws-users.com Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to blind-computing-le...@jaws-users.com For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: blind-computing-requ...@jaws-users.com Use the following address in order to contact the management team blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: jaws-users-list-j...@jaws-users.com
