Anne, You rock! Many thanks, worked like a charm! I don't have rulers showing, but seems like I recall in one menu or another an option to modify the button bar, and you can add the color option there. Thanks again! Cathy
> ---------- > From: owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu on behalf of Anne > Cartwright > Reply To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 2:34 PM > To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Cc: Anne Cartwright > Subject: Re: MacGroup: Appleworks question [bcc][faked-from] > > Cathy, > > I assume you have Rulers showing, so that on the right side of the ruler > you have a scroll down menu for font and one for size. I wish they also > had one for text color. Anyone know how to put that in the Ruler? > > Anne Cartwright > > > On Sunday, August 14, 2005, at 02:16 PM, Green, Cathy wrote: > > > Greetings group! > Thought I'd tap once again the expertise of this knowledgeable group > to see if you can solve this one: The one thing about MS Word that I like > is the fact that the fonts in the pull-down menu are actually written in > that font so you know what it looks like before choosing it. As a > long-time AW user, that's where my comfort zone & preferences lie, instead > of with Word. But to change the font, you have to select it first & then > type some words to see what that particular font is, which is not as > convenient as it is in Word.... > > I once heard that you can change this somewhere so that Appleworks' > pull-down font menu does the same thing Word's does. Would any of you > know if this is true, and if so, how to do this? Hopefully, yes, and that > it will be something easy to do to set that as a default without having to > do things in unknown (to me) places like the terminal and without a > working knowledge of one programming script or another. But in the event > it doesn't, there is someone out there with the expertise and patience to > type out step-by-step instructions... > > TIA, > Cathy > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050814/a2df5877/attachment.html
