paper/backgroud color... Light sensitive eyes

[frustratedMSuser]

Bully for you, Graham. But some people have light sensitivity issues. The
issue isn't only about environmental light reflecting off the monitor. It's
about staring at the bright light for 8-plus hours a day. Furthermore, it
takes less electricity to power a darker screen.

The only work-around I've found for this in Word 2007 is to go under Page
Layout and select Page Background, and then click on Page Color and select a
background "theme" color that you find comfortable. Ones in the darker hues
will flip the text automatically to white. It doesn't change the color of the
actual document, just what's on screen.

 

[Yves Dhondt]

For CRT monitors, it is indeed true that darker colors consume less power.
However for LCD monitors, the darker screen colors actually consume more
power than the lighter ones. I don't know which equipment you are using, but
considering that most computers bought in the last 7-8 years have LCD
screens, I doubt that your argument holds.

Yves