what theme do you in windows? did you recently change your windows theme?
are the messages plain text or html?
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"Fritz" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> The background on all incoming messages is black. Some how it got changed
> to
> a black background and I have to edit every message change the background
> before I can read the message. I searched and searched by can't find how
> to
> change. I use word as my e-mail editor. Is it a setting in word or
> office?
> Any help would be appreciated. Running Word & Outlook 2003 SP1