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Old 06-18-2011, 06:19 AM
Emerogork Emerogork is offline Why gray lettering on white in teh Navagation pane? Windows 7 32bit Why gray lettering on white in teh Navagation pane? Office 2010 32bit
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What is the big deal in using colors combinations that are so hard to read?



In the favorites pane, the e-mail address that is associated with the folder is light gray on white and extremely difficult to read. The subject line lettering color in the list of e-mail messages is bit darker and almost readable.

Who chose these colors and can I change them to something useable?

I see this all over the internet too: light green or pale yellow on a white background are not unusual. Why is this?

Do programmers just hate old people?
Is this some kind of revenge?

Outlook 2010
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Old 06-21-2011, 06:32 PM
Shawn76 Shawn76 is offline Why gray lettering on white in teh Navagation pane? Windows 7 Why gray lettering on white in teh Navagation pane? Office 2007
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I have no idea why they choose the colors they do. You can change them in the Control Panel Display settings on your computer. I have my Outlook set so that all lettering is white and the background is black. It is so much easier to read for me.

Start > Control Panel > Display > Personalization > Window Color

You could also choose different themes which have preset colors you can use.


Hope this helps
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Old 06-21-2011, 06:40 PM
Emerogork Emerogork is offline Why gray lettering on white in teh Navagation pane? Windows 7 32bit Why gray lettering on white in teh Navagation pane? Office 2010 32bit
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I have no idea why they choose the colors they do. You can change them in the Control Panel Display settings on your computer. I have my Outlook set so that all lettering is white and the background is black. It is so much easier to read for me.

Start > Control Panel > Display > Personalization > Window Color

You could also choose different themes which have preset colors you can use.


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What have they got, some 6 year old choosing the colors? The high contrast 1 is still offensive but less so than the others.

Why can't they let me choose the colors?

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Old 06-22-2011, 05:59 AM
Emerogork Emerogork is offline Why gray lettering on white in teh Navagation pane? Windows 7 32bit Why gray lettering on white in teh Navagation pane? Office 2010 32bit
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Default Nope, theme change did not work...

(I hope this is not a double post, I seemed to have lost the note I was writing... Gee, thanks MS.)

Tired the theme changes. The lease objective one still gave problems. What was black disappeared wit the new black background )-:

It seems that MS gives the illusion of versatility then can't manage it...
Everything has to be the default in order to work.
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