New document from backstage not same as normal

ultrarunner2020 · #1 04-12-2020, 02:54 PM

Hey all;

MS Office 2010 on Windows 10 (latest build).
MS Office set to dark theme.

Modified normal template to have dark gray (not black) document background with white text, and made some other style changes as well.

If I start word from the taskbar, I get a new document as per my normal template.
But if I go to backstage and select New > Blank Document, I get a new document with a black background (not the dark gray I set in normal), but it looks like my other custom styles (saved to normal) are good.

Thanks for your help

Ultrarunner

Guessed · #2 04-12-2020, 06:25 PM

That is odd. I would have thought the same template is used for both 'new' docs. What happens if you use Ctrl-N to create a new doc once Word is open?

ultrarunner2020 · #3 04-12-2020, 07:54 PM

Thanks for your reply;
When I use Ctrl + N I get the same black background as from backstage.

Guessed · #4 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 · #5 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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