Word 2002 - Background

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Peter

I'm writing a letter and although the page is white, the area where the text
is had a pale blue tinge. I thought I might have imported it by pasting
some words from a web page, but when I look at Format/Background it says 'No
Fill'.

How van I get rid of it?

Thanks
 
Peter said:
I'm writing a letter and although the page is white, the area where the text
is had a pale blue tinge. I thought I might have imported it by pasting
some words from a web page, but when I look at Format/Background it says 'No
Fill'.

How van I get rid of it?

Thanks
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This might be more a display problem than a Word or Windows
one. Check the Display settings for the monitor, particularly
the refresh rate and the color quality. The refresh rate should
be that specified for the monitor. Color quality and the monitor
color settings might be over-saturating the text area over the
white background, i.e., over-saturated black tends to bleed into
a gray (or blue).
 
Thanks

In fact, I don't think it's that because if I leave a large area between two
paragraphs (say, ten empty lines, or twenty if you prefer) the tinge stays
throughout, but limited by the width of the written lines.

Also, I'm sorry I thought I had posted this in the Word section, but if you
can add something elese I will be very grateful.
 
If you copy text from a web page, insert it as plain text.

MS Word | Edit | Paste Special | Unformatted text

You won't get the blue or whatever.

Also, since you already have it...
Highlight the blue tinged text | Right click and select Cut |
Hit Enter to move down one line | Edit | Paste Special | Unformatted text

Or highlight the blue tinged text | Right click and select Copy |
Move down one or two lines | Edit | Paste Special | Unformatted text
Delete the blue tinged text

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
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