New document from backstage not same as normal

Guessed · #1 04-12-2020, 09:10 PM

Well at least there is some consistency there.

Is your dark grey background color chosen from the Theme Color palette or as an RGB color? What happens when you reopen a document which had the grey background?

Have you considered including a Document_New (or AutoNew) macro to set the background when the new document is created?

ultrarunner2020 · #2 04-13-2020, 11:02 AM

Here's what I did to get the dark-gray background:

1. Selected the Black theme in Options
2. Opened the normal.dot using a line of VBA in the immediate window.
3. Made changes to the styles as desired. I selected Grayscale in style color, then made some other changes in styles, such as font size & color, hyperlink color, etc.
4. Changed page background color in Page Layout > Page Background > Page Color
5. Saved the normal.dot file open in the VBA editor, and saved again when closing Word.

So, the black background is what I selected using the Black theme, but for some reason, creating a new document from backstage or Ctrl + N is ignoring the page color I selected for normal.dot, reverting to the black which is default for the theme.
But I still get the changes I made to styles when I create a document, regardless of which method I use.

Note: The box 'Show background colors and images in Print Layout view is ticked for all documents.

I do have a VBA procedure in Normal/Modules/NewMacros.
This is the code in the procedure:

Code:

Sub AutoNew()
With ActiveDocument
    With .Background.Fill
        .ForeColor.ObjectThemeColor = wdThemeColorText1
        .ForeColor.TintAndShade = 0#
        .Visible = msoTrue
        .Solid
    End With
        .ActiveWindow.View.DisplayBackgrounds = True
    End With
End Sub

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