White text in PowerPoint2000

[John Smith]

I have a user that needs to use white text in her slides. The problem is
that the background of the text box is also white. She has to either set
the font a different color, or use a background fill (of, say, light gray)
in order to see the text as she enters it. Then she has to reset the colors
to white again once she is happy with her input.

Anyone have any ideas for simpler ways of work with white text here?
Ideally, I would like to change the color of the text box background as a
default, but I realize this might be a tall order.

TIA

 

[John Wilson]

Usual cause of this is adding a dark shape and send to back and then white
text.

Have a look at the slide color scheme (custom) and see if changing the
background and text to contrasting colours helps.