when copying highlight color has changed to black. change to defau

[wlmehciz]

My highlight color has changed to black when I highlight to copy. I would
like to change the color back to light blue.

 

[Stefan Blom]

This is a Windows setting which you can change in Control Panel. I don't
know the exact location for the newer Windows versions, but in Windows XP,
double-click Display (in Control Panel). On the Appearance tab, click
Advanced. In the list box, choose "Selected Items" and specify the desired
color. When you are done, click OK twice.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

An easy way to get to Control Panel | Display (any version of Windows, I
think), is to right-click on the desktop and choose Properties.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Stefan Blom]

Good point. I actually right-click the desktop myself, but since I wasn't
sure about recent Windows versions I thought suggesting Control Panel would
be safer.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I admire and second your caution, although the path to Control Panel in
recent versions of Windows may be even more iffy than right-clicking the
desktop! I have Windows 7 on my new laptop but haven't used it enough to be
completely sure of anything, and I have used Vista only a tiny bit, so I'm
really out of my depth there.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Stefan Blom]

For what it's worth, you can display Control Panel via Start | Run.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

But Control Panel is still on the main Start menu in all versions (at least
it is in Windows 7).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Stefan Blom]

But depending on the chosen "layout" of the Start menu, the Control Panel
item will be in different locations. I'm not saying that it's a huge
problem, but Run provides a different route, for those of us who like to use
the keyboard.