Changing Font Color

Changing Font Color

Changing the color of your text can brighten up a document and make key parts of it stand out. Remember that changing font color won't do much if you're printing on a black-and-white printer. (The colors print in shades of gray.) If, on the other hand, you have a color printer or your readers view the document onscreen, font colors can greatly enhance your document's appearance.

As usual, the easiest way to apply font color is to use the Formatting toolbar, as described in these steps:

1. Select the text to which you want to apply font color.

2. Click the down arrow to the right of the Font Color toolbar button at the right end of the Formatting toolbar. A palette appears with a large selection of colors (see Figure 6.7). Pointing to a color displays a ScreenTip with the color's name . Click the one you want to use.

   Figure 6.7. Word gives you many colors to choose from. Click the one you want to use.

   

Word applies the color to the selected text. To see what it looks like, deselect the text. If you don't see a color that you want to use in the Font Color palette, click the More Colors button at the bottom of the palette to display the Colors dialog box. Choose a color you like, and click OK.

Font colors change the color of the text itself. You can also use the Highlighting feature to draw a transparent color over the selected text, just as you'd mark text with a highlighter pen. You learn how to apply highlighting in Hour 18, "Collaborating on Documents."